Prior to Kermit the Frog another Kermit was well-known; he accompanied his father Theodore Roosevelt, ex-President of the USA, on an expedition 1913-14 during which the River Kermit was named in his honour. Where was the expedition?
Kermit Roosevelt been co-founded by his father. One commentator wrote that Kermit embodied the ideals of the club perhaps more purely than anyone, including his father. One of Theodore Roosevelt's most popular books, "Through the Brazilian Wilderness", recounted the father-and-son expedition into the Amazon Basin Brazilian jungle in 1913–14. Father and son went on what would become known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition, exploring the Brazilian jungle with explorer Colonel Cândido Rondon. During this expedition, they explored the River of Doubt, later renamed Rio Roosevelt in honor of the President, as well as a branch of that river named the Rio Kermit
Kermit Roosevelt officer and in the United Kingdom by a US Army general officer named in memory of Kermit Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt appears as a minor character in the Wilbur Smith novel "Assegai" on safari in East Africa with his father. He also appears fleetingly (in a dream) in William Boyd's novel "An Ice-Cream War". The book "Roosevelt's Beast" by Louis Bayard is a fictitious story of the Rondon-Roosevelt expedition, narrated by Kermit Roosevelt. Kermit Roosevelt Kermit Roosevelt, MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. The second son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th