Author: Larry Roster
“Into the Amazon” is a thrilling biography of Candido Rondon, a Brazilian explorer, scientist, and conservationist who was alive during the late 19th to mid-20th centuries.
Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history.
Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them — and led former President Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated “River of Doubt” journey in 1913–14.
Author William Lawrence Rohter, Jr. — known as Larry Rohter — is an American journalist who was a South American bureau chief for The New York Times from 1999 to 2007.
Previously, he was Caribbean and Latin American correspondent of the Times from 1994 to 1999. He now writes about cultural topics.
The book was extremely well-written and researched. It was interesting, easy to read, and full of details that portrayed Rondon in an honest light, highlighting both his shining characteristics as well as the occasional mistakes.
