The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon (Paperback)

from Jenners26

Book Overview The Lost City of Z combines true-life adventure, history, biography and travel narrative in one book. The book chronicles journalist David Grann's investigation into the mystery of what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 while searching...

from Jenners26

Book Overview The Lost City of Z combines true-life adventure, history, biography and travel narrative in one book. The book chronicles journalist David Grann's investigation into the mystery of what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925 while searching...

from brenzi

This book is non-fiction but you'd never guess it. To say it reads like fiction isn't exactly right either. It's an adventure story on steroids and it's all true. It's mainly the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett and his exploration of the Amazon jungle in the early 1900s. Told through Fawc...

from tuckerresearch

I was worried that I would not like this, as it is written by a journalist and journalists have a tendency to put themselves too much into the story. Grann does this, it is partly the story of his research and trek into the jungle to search for Fawcett and Z, but it isn ot in an annoying way. Mos...

from rainpebble

In 1925 Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett and his expedition party (including his son) entered the Amazon in search of The Lost City of El Dorado which he called simply "Z". This story is about the search for his party which, like those who went before, never returned. For months, Fawcett was able t...