Publisher Description
The #1 New York Times Bestseller – Now a Major Motion Picture starring Charlie Hunnam, Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller. In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless people perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century. Look for David Grann’s new book, Killers of the Flower Moon, available now.
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“The beauty of a good non-fiction book is that it can pull you in against your own sense of rationality, painting a cast of real characters and places so vividly that, despite having a general idea of how things will end, you keep turning the page in suspense. Too often when a writer inserts himself into a non-fiction book, it is to evoke some dual story, trying to let the overarching mystery at hand draw out some interesting conclusion about his own life, distracting from both the subject and the narrative. Grann doesn’t let this happen, instead, he seems to be our surrogate..embarking on his own trip because he simply couldn’t resist, using his own journey as a vehicle for relaying more perspective and knowledge. A great and adventurous read.”
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Jackson (4 out of 5 stars)