If there’s any doubt how dangerous this expedition was, consider that it would be another thirteen years before anyone successfully made the same trip. The first follow up expedition had to turn back because of the Indians. The one after that simply disappeared without a trace, presumably killed by the Indians. Roosevelt, being Roosevelt, somehow… Continue reading Teddy Roosevelt’s 1914 expedition to the unexplored Amazon rainforest might be one of the most ridiculous things that’s ever happened, ever
Confessions of a Conservative Atheist 