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Amazon adventurers

n the 1980s bon vivant {below) took his 49.5-metre Feadship upriver, wowing Amazonians with her Jon Bannenberg design. The founded FUNAI to protect indigenous peoples. Rondon guided former president on a voyage along the River of Doubt, which is plagued by barely passable rapids and waterfalls. After Rondon waved Roosevelt home, the explorer simply turned around and carried on into the jungle.

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