![]() ![]() Grann expertly winds his own quest story around Fawcett’s, said Rich Cohen in The New York Times. The New Yorker correspondent’s first book “brings Fawcett’s remarkable story to a beautifully written, perfectly paced fruition,” and it even makes progress on the tale’s central mysteries. ![]() But writer David Grann has done far better than escape their fate. More than 100 people have since died trying to track down what happened to Fawcett, said Karla Starr in the Los Angeles Times. “You need have no fear of any failure,” he wrote to his wife. Fawcett believed that the centuries-old lore about a place called El Dorado was rooted in truth, and he had enlisted his son and his son’s friend on a mission to locate a great, vanished settlement that he called Z. Newspaper readers worldwide now hung on his every dispatch. On previous expeditions, he had shot a 60-foot anaconda, fought off insect swarms as thick as rain, and watched men die of starvation and disease. The 57-year-old British officer knew the region’s hazards perhaps better than any other non-native. ![]() Seasoned explorer Percy Fawcett had a team of two and a following of millions in 1925 when he plunged into the Amazon jungle looking for an ancient lost city. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon ![]()
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