‘A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ Sunday Times In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration. Some died from disease and starvation others simply disappeared. They vanished without a trace.įor the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World , by the author of the international Number One bestsellers KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE WAGERįawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. ‘A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’ JOHN GRISHAM **NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON, CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER**
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