February 2016
Colonel Roosevelt and Cândido Rondon with bush deer. We hung the buck in a tree. From a photograph by Anthony Fiala.
In the end of 1913, Theodore Roosevelt and Cândido Rondon went to an expedition in the Amazon Forest during 54 days. The experience was documented in the book Throught the Brazilian wilderness, fully available online.
The adventure began in Paraguay and the book documents every specie found by the crew and their amazement with the beautiful landscape.
However, the expedition also faced some problems: Almost every member of the expedition suffered with insects and Malaria; The food provisions were ill-conceived forcing the team on starvation diets; And the the canoes were unsuitable to the constant rapids and were often lost.
In 2010, the expedition was the topic of the article Roosevelt and Rondon unveil a river in the Amazon, published in História, Ciências, Saúde – Manguinhos (vol.17, no.3, 2010).
See below other articles about Cândido Rondon already published in HCS-Manguinhos:
Schäffner, Wolfgang. Los medios de comunicación y la construcción del territorio en América Latina. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2008, vol.15, no.3, p.811-826. ISSN 0104-5970
Aranha, Patrícia M. Science, telegraphs, and geography: military engineers in the Rondon Commission, 1907-1915. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Mar 2013, vol.20, no.1, p.307-315. ISSN 0104-5970
Vital, André Vasques. The Rondon Commission, diseases, and politics: “Região do Madeira: Santo Antônio,” by Joaquim Augusto Tanajura – another view of the Alto Madeira in 1911. Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.545-558. ISSN 0104-5970
Caser, Arthur Torres and Sá, Dominichi Miranda de. Fear of the sertão:malaria and the Rondon Commission (1907-1915). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jun 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.471-498. ISSN 0104-5970
Sá, Dominichi Miranda de, Sá, Magali Romero and Lima, Nísia Trindade. Telegraphs and an inventory of the territory of Brazil: the scientific work of the Rondon Commission (1907-1915). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Set 2008, vol.15, no.3, p.779-810. ISSN 0104-5970
Lima, Nísia Trindade. Telegraphs and an inventory of the territory of Brazil: the scientific work of the Rondon Commission (1907-1915). Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos, Jul 1998, vol.5, p.163-193. ISSN 0104-5970
