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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

David Grann

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Mar 31, 2012 Deb (Readerbuzz) Nance rated it really liked it

Shelves: on-the-road, nonfiction, travel

I went off with City of Z explorer Percy Fawcett across the Amazon jungle over spring break. Hiram and Percy led us through "insatiable thirst, skull-splitting headaches, and uncontrollable shivering," as we were "spitting up mouthfuls of blood." We tramped through lands with tribes of natives who "captured prisoners...they either kept...forever or roasted them to devour in their banquets." Swimming in the waters of the Amazon were not only the feared piranhas, the so-called "vampire fish of Bra ...more

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Aug 01, 2021 Linda Martin rated it it was amazing

Shelves: nonfiction, 2021, history, adventure, science, archaeology, geo-brazil

You can learn a lot about South American history by reading this book, at least, as far as exploration of it during the 20th century. The Amazon is an inhospitable region that obsessed explorers have been attracted to for over a century. Many of the explorers died or went missing and Percy Harrison Fawcett was perhaps the most famous among them. He worked with the British Royal Geographical Society to ostensibly map the Amazon and other regions. He may also have worked as a spy.

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Jul 13, 2011 Alexis rated it really liked it

Shelves: non-fiction

Very interesting and new information to me. Enjoyed the structure of the book (switching from the historical context to the modern context) and the general flow of the story. Ending was a little weak, but not really sure how else I would end it.

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