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The Amazon River is Blocking My View

The real and imagined river of doubt

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Amy L Bernstein
Dec 05, 2023
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When you turn yourself into a hammer, every object resembles a nail that you long to bang hard, again and again.

As the resident Queen of Doubt, imagine my excitement when I came across a review of a new book about a Brazilian explorer, Cândido Rondon, who helped former president Theodore Roosevelt in 1913 to navigate …

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