"Truth is stranger than fiction," as the old saying goes, and it applies incredibly well to this presidential father-son story. After a humiliating electoral defeat in 1912, Teddy Roosevelt set out to defeat the most difficult physical challenge he could and brought his son Kermit with him. Together they go down the Amazon, surviving attacks by natives, loss of supplies, murder committed within their group, and other hardships. This incredible true story of the relationship between a father and son under truly extraordinary circumstances has to be read to be believed.
