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'A fantastic story of courage, obsession, an mystery. THE LOST CITY OF Z is gripping from beginning to end. In the pantheon of classic exploration tale, this stands out as one of the best' Candice Millard, author of River of Doubt
'What a wild and adventurous life! In the deft storytelling hands of David Grann, explorer Percy Fawcett emerges as one of the most ambitious, colorful, just plain intrepid figures ever to set foot in the New World' Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers
'[an] outstanding book…terrifically exciting' Scotsman 12/03
'In Fawcett's swashbuckling Boy's Own tradition' Saga Magazine March issue
'David Grann's book is the latest of many attempts to discover what happened to him (it is thought that a hundred people have died in the course of these attempts). But what makes it so different from the others is that it appears at a time when the world has forgotten Fawcett. …And this is what makes David Grann's book so interesting. Everything in it does ring true. No nonsense about 60-foot anacondas ('the longest officially recorded one is 27 feet nine inches')… And no nonsense about lost cities, except that Grann has a surprise in store for the reader in his very last chapter…But the most fascinating part of his book is when he writes about recent archaeological discoveries' The Spectator 26/3
'The Boy's Own adventure story of the year has already arrived. New Yorker journalist David Grann's book - subtitled "A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon" - traces the doomed attempts to find a mythical (possibly) early civilisation in the depths of the Amazon jungle. Its hero is Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, last of the great, mad British explorers and inspiration for his friend Conan Doyle's classic The Lost World. In 1925, Col Fawcett set off amid great pomp and publicity with his son and his son's best friend, to discover this lost city, which he christened Z. They never returned. Subsequent attempts to learn what happened to the Fawcett expedition also ended in death and disappearance. Now Grann, an extremely unlikely adventurer, sets out on his own obsessive mission, to disinter Fawcett's story and also, perhaps, to find Z himself. It's a cracking book, brave and funny, full of snakes and spears and spies, outlandish diseases, hype and heroics. No wonder Brad Pitt has optioned the movie rights' GQ.com 31/03
'What a wild and adventurous life! In the deft storytelling hands of David Grann, explorer Percy Fawcett emerges as one of the most ambitious, colorful, just plain intrepid figures ever to set foot in the New World' Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers
'[an] outstanding book…terrifically exciting' Scotsman 12/03
'In Fawcett's swashbuckling Boy's Own tradition' Saga Magazine March issue
'David Grann's book is the latest of many attempts to discover what happened to him (it is thought that a hundred people have died in the course of these attempts). But what makes it so different from the others is that it appears at a time when the world has forgotten Fawcett. …And this is what makes David Grann's book so interesting. Everything in it does ring true. No nonsense about 60-foot anacondas ('the longest officially recorded one is 27 feet nine inches')… And no nonsense about lost cities, except that Grann has a surprise in store for the reader in his very last chapter…But the most fascinating part of his book is when he writes about recent archaeological discoveries' The Spectator 26/3
'The Boy's Own adventure story of the year has already arrived. New Yorker journalist David Grann's book - subtitled "A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon" - traces the doomed attempts to find a mythical (possibly) early civilisation in the depths of the Amazon jungle. Its hero is Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, last of the great, mad British explorers and inspiration for his friend Conan Doyle's classic The Lost World. In 1925, Col Fawcett set off amid great pomp and publicity with his son and his son's best friend, to discover this lost city, which he christened Z. They never returned. Subsequent attempts to learn what happened to the Fawcett expedition also ended in death and disappearance. Now Grann, an extremely unlikely adventurer, sets out on his own obsessive mission, to disinter Fawcett's story and also, perhaps, to find Z himself. It's a cracking book, brave and funny, full of snakes and spears and spies, outlandish diseases, hype and heroics. No wonder Brad Pitt has optioned the movie rights' GQ.com 31/03
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A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post Bestseller
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
