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<\/a>Colonel Roosevelt and C\u00e2ndido Rondon with bush deer. We hung the buck in a tree. From a photograph by Anthony Fiala.<\/p><\/div>\n
In the end of 1913, Theodore Roosevelt and C\u00e2ndido Rondon went to an expedition in the Amazon Forest during 54 days. The experience was documented in the book Throught the Brazilian wilderness<\/a>, fully available online.<\/p>\n The adventure began in Paraguay and \u00a0the book documents every specie found by the crew and their amazement with the beautiful landscape.<\/p>\n However, the expedition also faced some problems: \u00a0Almost every member of the expedition suffered with insects and Malaria; The food provisions were ill-conceived forcing the team on starvation diets; \u00a0And the the canoes were unsuitable to the constant rapids and were often lost.<\/p>\n In 2010, \u00a0the expedition was the topic of the article Roosevelt and Rondon unveil a river in the Amazon<\/a>,\u00a0\u00a0published in\u00a0Hist\u00f3ria, Ci\u00eancias, Sa\u00fade\u00a0<\/em>– Manguinhos<\/i>\u00a0(vol.17, no.3, 2010).<\/p>\n See below other articles about C\u00e2ndido Rondon already published in HCS-Manguinhos:<\/p>\n Sch\u00e4ffner, Wolfgang.\u00a0Los medios de comunicaci\u00f3n y la construcci\u00f3n del territorio en Am\u00e9rica Latina<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Set 2008, vol.15, no.3, p.811-826. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Aranha, Patr\u00edcia M.\u00a0Science, telegraphs, and geography:\u00a0military engineers in the Rondon Commission, 1907-1915.<\/a>\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Mar 2013, vol.20, no.1, p.307-315. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Vital, Andr\u00e9 Vasques.\u00a0The Rondon Commission, diseases, and politics:\u00a0“Regi\u00e3o do Madeira: Santo Ant\u00f4nio,” by Joaquim Augusto Tanajura – another view of the Alto Madeira in 1911.<\/a>\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Jun 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.545-558. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n Caser, Arthur Torres and S\u00e1, Dominichi Miranda de.\u00a0Fear of the sert\u00e3o:malaria and the Rondon Commission (1907-1915)<\/a>.\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Jun 2011, vol.18, no.2, p.471-498. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n S\u00e1, Dominichi Miranda de, S\u00e1, Magali Romero and Lima, N\u00edsia Trindade.\u00a0Telegraphs and an inventory of the territory of Brazil:\u00a0the scientific work of the Rondon Commission (1907-1915).<\/a>\u00a0Hist. cienc. saude-Manguinhos<\/i>, Set 2008, vol.15, no.3, p.779-810. ISSN 0104-5970<\/p>\n