![]() ![]() The mystery of Fawcett’s last expedition, which also claimed the life of his 21-year-old son Jack, has proved to be an irresistible obsession. Taking the Amazon as his specialty, Fawcett led a number of grueling expeditions before disappearing into the jungle in 1925, when he was 57. No wonder Brad Pitt snapped up the movie rights before The Lost City of Z was even published.įawcett was last in the line of heroic explorers that included Henry Stanley, Richard Burton and Ernest Shackleton - men who left Europe in search of adventure and science in the 19th and early 20th centuries. The story has everything to fire the imagination: Romance, nostalgia, bravery, monomania, hardship, adventure, science, tragedy, mystery. That’s when David Grann’s article about explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest to find the mythic city of El Dorado in the Amazon appeared in The New Yorker. ![]() ![]() I’ve been waiting for this book since 2005. ![]()
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