#175 Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

I don't believe he can live through the night. George Terry wrote in his diary in the spring of nineteen fourteen. a tough and highly respected naturalist who had spent twenty five years exploring the Amazon, Cherry too often had watched helplessly, As his companions succumbed, the

to the lethal dangers of the jungle. Deep in the Brazilian rainforest. He recognized the approach of death when he saw it. And it now hung unmistakably over Theodore Roosevelt.

Less than eighteen months after Roosevelt's dramatic failed campaign for an unprecedented third term in the White House, the sweat soaked figure before Cherry in the jungle darkness could not have been further removed from the power and privilege of his former office. Hundreds of miles from help. or even any outside awareness of his ordeal.

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