2024 Mass Book Award Finalist Larry Rohter “Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon”

Tuesday, January 7th

7:00—8:00 PM

Online-Zoom.

2024 Mass Book Award Finalist Larry Rohter will discuss his new book, Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist in this installment of “Author Hour in Massachusetts.”

About Larry: Journalist & author Larry Rohter was the Rio de Janeiro bureau chief for the New York Times from 1998 to 2008 and held the same role at Newsweek from 1977 to 1982. He divides his time between the United States and Brazil.

About Into The Amazon: A thrilling biography of the Indigenous Brazilian explorer, scientist, statesman, and conservationist who guided Theodore Roosevelt on his journey down the River of Doubt. Cândido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them―and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on their celebrated “River of Doubt” journey in 1913–14.

Please register here.  In collaboration with the Tewksbury Public Library.  Thanks to the Friends of the Bedford Free Public Library.

RECORDING NOTE: This program will be recorded.  All registrants will receive the recording via email within 48 hours of the program.

Learn more about Candido Rondon: Upon leaving the Brazilian Army in 1930 with the rank of a two-star general, Rondon, himself of Indigenous descent, devoted the remainder of his life to not only writing about the region’s flora and fauna but also advocating for the peoples who inhabited the rainforest and lobbying for the creation of a system of national parks. Despite his many achievements―which include laying down a 1,200-mile telegraph line through the heart of the Amazon and three nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize―Rondon has never received his due. Originally published in Brazil, Into the Amazon is the first comprehensive biography of his life and remarkable career. The book received starred reviews in Kirkus Reviews & Publishers Weekly, was an Honoree (Finalist) Book in the 2024 Massachusetts Book Awards.

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