Title: Not real enough
Product review: I was disappointed in River of Doubt, anticipating a gripping tale about both Teddy Roosevelt and what was then the unexplored Amazon River region. Roosevelt never really emerges as a person. Even more annoying, the description of the flora and fauna of the Amazon is anthropomorphic, failing to comprehend or acknowledge the most rudimentary and accepted concepts of species development and evolution. The author repeatedly tells us that nature adapted itself and developed strategies to accomplish specific tasks, which is a backwards view to say the least. Plants and animals have no more capability to alter their physical structure than we humans do. Resultant "strategies" reflect nothing more than survival of variations that were more resilient than others that did not survive. This story was marred by too much emphasis on adventure and threat, too much effort to make the jungle an adversary, and not enough attention to real personalities and science.
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