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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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July 9, 2014
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August 12, 2014
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Sue
Jun 27, 2013 rated it really liked it
This was a thoroughly enjoyable book. I had never heard of Percy Fawcett before but many of Gramm's references to books, i.e. Conan Doyle's The Lost World, or King Solomon's Mines were familiar to me. So much of this has been regurgitated on tv shows that it's a bit hard to believe that even these are based in real history. The story of Z centers on British explorer Percy Fawcett who spent his life exploring the Amazon. His last expedition was one in which he was determined to discover the lost ...more
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Jun 20, 2012 rated it really liked it
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