The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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A masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, this blockbuster adventure takes listeners on a gripping journey into the Amazon.After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? In 1925, Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history, but he and his expedition vanished. For decades, scientists and adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett's party and the lost City of Z. David Grann's quest for the truth and his stunning discoveries about Fawcett's fate and "Z" form the heart of this complex, enthralling narrative.From the Compact Disc edition. The Barnes & Noble Review Percy Harrison Fawcett (he went by "Colonel," although he was only a lieutenant colonel) was among the last of the gentleman explorers, the generalists who set out with machete and sketchbook to fill in the blank spots on the globe. Born in 1867, Fawcett, a wiry teetotalling Englishman who seemed immune to malaria, did this work better and faster than anyone believed was possible: in 1906–7 he mapped the border between Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil, an inhospitable jungle river; in the seven years that followed he was all over the Amazon, sometimes following rivers, sometimes hacking his way overland, always with only a small party to help him. His surveying trips won him a medal from the Royal Geographical Society and a certain amount of fame (although never any money); but the expedition for which he is best known is the one he undertook in 1925, accompanied only by his son Jack and Raleigh Rimmell, Jack's boyhood friend. They were looking for a legendary city, which Fawcett referred to in his notes as "Z." None of them ever returned.
Preface 31 We Shall Return 72 The Vanishing 173 The Search Begins 274 Buried Treasure 335 Blank Spots on the Map 486 The Disciple 587 Freeze-Dried Ice Cream, and Adrenaline Socks 668 Into the Amazon 719 The Secret Papers 8910 The Green Hell 9411 Dead Horse Camp 10012 In the Hands of the Gods 10213 Ransom 12514 The Case for Z 12915 El Dorado 14816 The Locked Box 15617 The Whole World Is Mad 16018 A Scientific Obsession 18319 An Unexpected Clue 19320 Have No Fear 19721 The Last Eyewitness 21522 Dead or Alive 22523 The Colonel's Bones 24424 The Other World 25625 Z 261Acknowledgments 279A Note on the Sources 283Notes 285Selected Bibliography 315Index 327
