290: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him (Part 1)
APR 7, 202569 MIN
290: The Conservation President and the Adventure That Almost Killed Him (Part 1)
APR 7, 202569 MIN
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<div>Following a crushing political defeat in 1913, former president Theodore Roosevelt turned to what soothed him the most - the wild and pushing his limits within it. Roosevelt is a complicated historical figure - one who is remembered in teddy bears, for his legacy of public land protection, as the country’s youngest and most influential politician as well as a man who held racist ideals - but not many remember him as a man who lived for adventure and pioneering exploration. When the opportunity presented itself to participate in an expedition into untouched Amazonian jungle to map an unexplored river - he was willing to die for it.<br>
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