The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann is a historical adventure book based around a true www.doorway.ru published in , the book tells the story of an explorer who spent his life searching for a mysterious lost city, and how scientists are still trying to figure out what happened to him when he ventured into the Amazon rainforest. David Grann's The Lost City of Z is a deeply satisfying revelation - a look into the life and times of one of the last great territorial explorers, P. H. Fawcett, and his search for a lost city in the Amazon. I mean, what could be better - obsession, mystery, deadly insects, shrunken heads, suppurating wounds, hostile tribesmen - all for us to. · Excerpt from. The Lost City of Z. On a cold January day in , a tall, distinguished gentleman hurried across the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, toward the SS Vauban, a five-hundred-and-eleven-foot ocean liner bound for Rio de Janeiro. He was fifty- seven years old and stood over six feet, his long arms corded with muscles.
The author of the national bestseller The Lost City of Z talks about what he thinks makes the book so fascinating to www.doorway.ru://www.doorway.ru The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is the debut non-fiction book by American author David www.doorway.ru book was published in and recounts the activities of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in , disappeared with his son in the Amazon while looking for an ancient lost city. For decades explorers and scientists have tried to find evidence of his party and of. The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon by Grann, David. Publication date Topics New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization.
What [Grann] finds is what makes The Lost City of Z so gratifying, and in the end he, and we along with him, find ourselves stunned by what Percy Fawcett discovered.” — The Oregonian “Grann paints a vivid picture of the final days of trail-blazing, Earth-bound grand exploration, before airplanes and radios began stripping the mystery from the unknown parts of the world.”. When he vanished, Fawcett and his party had been trying to uncover a lost civilization hidden in the Amazon, which Fawcett had named, simply, the City of Z. In the next seven decades, scores of. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon. After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century”: What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?.
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