The Lost City of Z is at once a biography, a detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing that combines Bruce Chatwinesque powers of observation with a Waugh-like sense of the absurd. Reads with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller. Look for David Grann's latest #1 New York Times bestselling book, The Wager! In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett's quest for 'Z' and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called '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. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. For centuries Europeans believed the Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. 'Reads with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller.At once a biography, a detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing.' - The New York TimesĪfter stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed writer David Grann set out to determine what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z. Description #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century-the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned.

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