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Candice Millard: The River of Doubt (2006, Broadway) 4 stars

At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt …

Review of 'The River of Doubt' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Lively discussions. Some of us liked it, some of us didn't. We were all struck by how poorly prepared the party was for the expedition, and how most of them none-the-less managed to survive it. We all found the single map in the book unsatisfying (I was the only one who had thought to go to google maps to look at it), so Susan dragged in a couple of atlases from the reference desk.