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I love a good adventure story. A lot of it is wealthy white men doing some pretty stupid stuff supposedly in the name of science. I find adventurers a truly interesting bunch. Most of them often too easily classified as egomaniacs. And while there is some of that in many of them, there is also the restlessness and wanderlust that I find appealing too.
This book is mostly about Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who spent a good deal of his time exploring and mapping the Amazon just after the turn ...more
This book is mostly about Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who spent a good deal of his time exploring and mapping the Amazon just after the turn ...more
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