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Exploring the uncharted Amazon
Theodore Roosevelt was known to most as the 26th president, he was also an avid naturalist, who traveled the world pursuing the unfamiliar and the unexplored. In The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey author Candice Millard describes Roosevelt's trip down an unmapped part of the Amazon River. She joins Hari Sreenivasan via Google Hangout.
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