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Call of Chicago: Our Man in Manaus

“I have anticipated my narrative because I do not wish to recur to the horror more than is necessary.” —Theodore Roosevelt, Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914) In 1914, former President Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit, along with the Brazilian Colonel Cândido Rondon and the naturalist George Cherrie, descended the unmapped Rio da Dúvida, the […]

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