The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

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Grann that I picked up, after going some of his journalistic works, which proved to be promising enough. Grann's descriptions of the jungle's deprivations felt to me like watching a David Attenborough nature program in Feel-o-vision. The earliest conquistadors left records of their glimpses of this civilization, but by the time they tried to explore the rainforest again, the indigenous people were all but gone. But each excursion he made led him to believe that a lost city he codenamed Z existed somewhere farther into the jungle. 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.

Some of those old views were what started horrible and asinine beliefs/movements like eugenics, or cultural destruction by evangelization.David Grann, the author, became fascinated with Colonel Percy Fawcett after he stumbled upon a treasure trove of his journals.

In this masterpiece, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcetts quest for Z and his own journey into the deadly jungle. Readers who don't like historical accounts of facts and information might want to pass this book by. Over eighteen thousand feet high in the Andes, amid snow and clouds, it emerges through a rocky seam--a trickle of crystal water.Fawcett believed the impenetrable jungle held a secret to a large, complex civilization like El Dorado, which he christened ‘City of Z’. This is a book to make you think about what man is: his determination, his understanding, his folly, his ego, and how some of us have these things in greater measure than others. The ruins were surrounded by several concentric circular moats, with evidence of palisades that had been described in the folklore and oral history of nearby tribes. He has geared up, abandoned his family and climbed into the vortex himself—stung by his subject’s obsession. David Grann’s 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.