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Kay
Aug 03, 2007 rated it really liked it
Peter Fleming, brother of Ian, was quite an accomplished a writer himself -- though here he writes for mostly comic effect chronicling an ill-fated 1932 expedition to South America in search of a missing explorer, one Colonel Percy Fawcett (who, I might add, is worth pursuing in and of himself purely for reasons of improbability and absurdity... see my review of Exploration Fawcett for details).

Fleming answers an advertisement in The Times and soon finds himself among a rag-tag group of adventur
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