The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Millard

Published 2006 · 416 pages · 114,400 words · about 7 hours at an average pace

How hard is The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey to read?

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey scores 42 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it moderately challenging. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.

Where the story of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey takes place

  • Amazon Basin, Brazil, 1913–1914 (1913 to 1914), the main setting

About the author

Candice Millard