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| | Description | A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Denver Post Bestseller
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 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. | |
| | Product Details | | Author: | David Grann | | Paperback: | 448 pages | | Publisher: | Vintage | | Publication Date: | January 26, 2010 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 1400078458 | | Product Length: | 5.18 inches | | Product Width: | 0.92 inches | | Product Height: | 8.0 inches | | Product Weight: | 0.94 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.9 inches | | Package Width: | 5.1 inches | | Package Height: | 1.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 383 reviews |
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313 of 329 found the following review helpful:
 Non-fiction to rival the wildest adventures! Dec 19, 2008
By Susan Tunis
I'm a huge fan of classic and contemporary tales of adventure, but I don't normally read much non-fiction. However, David Grann's The Lost City of Z sounded too irresistible to ignore. My instincts were right; it ranks among the best thrillers I've read. What a story!
Actually, it's two stories. The first is the life story of Victorian explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett. A member of the Royal Geographical Society, Fawcett was an explorer in the days when much of the globe was truly unknown. He came from a family of modest means, and began his career in the British military stationed in Ceylon. But he achieved worldwide acclaim as an explorer of the Amazonian jungles and river ways.
Grann's book is most concerned with Fawcett's last fateful expedition, but throughout the first couple hundred pages, he recounts Fawcett's entire career and it's enthralling. It's hard to imagine the bravery it took to strike out into the absolute unknown--with little or no communication with civilization--sometimes for years at a time. Fawcett and his companions routinely faced starvation, bloodthirsty indigenous tribes, horrific insect infestations, lethal tropical diseases, deadly white-water rapids, poisonous snakes, anacondas, piranha, and other terrifying creatures. If, for instance, you're wondering what's so horrific about insects, then you haven't been treated to a graphic description of what it's like when a living human is infested with maggots beneath their skin.
Fawcett and his men (always men) faced death constantly, and it seems that he must have lost hundreds of men in the course of his career. Perhaps not hundreds. Fawcett, unlike many of his contemporaries believed in keeping expeditions small. He was far more successful than most. The chapters that detail Fawcett's interactions with the native populations of the Amazon are among the most fascinating. Fawcett followed his own instincts which often were in direct opposition of conventional wisdom. Time after time he succeeded where others failed, and where the difference between success and failure was the difference between life and death.
Here's the other thing about Percy Fawcett: I think he was the Forrest Gump of his time. His story is touched on directly or indirectly by a truly staggering number of historic figures including Mark Twain, Charles Darwin, Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Pickford, Ian Fleming, Winston Churchill, H. Rider Haggard, TE Lawrence, and even Indiana Jones!
As fascinating as every aspect of Fawcett's story is, the real hook is the enduring mystery of Fawcett's last expedition. Over the course of his long career, Fawcett had developed a hypothesis that there was once a great civilization in the depths of the Amazon. An El Dorado-like city that he simply called "Z." This is what he single-mindedly sought at the end of his career. In 1925, accompanied by his son and a friend, Fawcett entered the jungle determined to locate the lost city of Z--and was never heard from again.
He didn't go quietly. Readers around the world waited with bated breath to learn his fate. The story was routinely resurrected for decades. In the eighty-some years since, hundreds have entered the jungle hot on his trail. Many have never returned. Author David Grann is the most recent in a long line of would-be explorers obsessed with this mystery.
And it is Grann's tale that is the second story being told. He's an unlikely adventurer--a not particularly athletic, middle-aged staff writer for The New Yorker. But Grann does get caught up in the course of researching the book. So much so that he leaves his comfortable urban life, his wife, and his infant son to enter the Brazilian jungle. Like so many others, he seeks to find out what truly happened to Fawcett, and/or if there really was a Z. We follow Grann's progress interspersed between the chapters about Fawcett. One of the most shocking aspects of Grann's expedition is just how much the Amazon has changed since Fawcett's day. Grann doesn't dwell overly on the ecological ramifications, but the juxtaposition is disturbing.
Time and time again I had to restrain myself from turning to the back of the book to see how it ends. I was as caught up in the outcome as I have been with any novel in recent memory. Success was so unlikely; I just couldn't imagine how Grann's quest would end. And I'm certainly not going to tell you. Go read this book! Run! Now!
70 of 77 found the following review helpful:
The remarkable story of one man's obsession with finding a "lost" civilization. Feb 13, 2009
By Paul Tognetti
"The real world is so much more interesting!"
The obstacles to proving his theory were overwhelming. As a young man Percy Fawcett became convinced that contrary to conventional wisdom a highly advanced civilization once thrived in the extremely hostile climes of the Amazon. Fawcett made his first foray into the region around 1910 and laid the groundwork for his world famous expedition in 1925. It was a journey from which he and his two associates would never return. "The Lost City of Z: A Tale Of Deadly Obsession In The Amazon" chronicles the life of this extraordinary individual and reveals just what he was up against in proving the existence of the ancient city he dubbed simply "Z".
Author David Grann, a staff writer for the New Yorker, unearthed the story of Percy Fawcett in 2004 while doing research for another project. Before long he found himself totally consumed by the Fawcett saga. He talked himself into travelling to Brazil in an attempt to find out once and for all just what happened to Percy Fawcett, his son Jack and Jack's best friend Raleigh Rimell some eight decades earlier. Suffice to say that what he discovered is a real eye-opener. While putting together "The Lost City of Z" David Grann met with members of the Fawcett family and gained access to a cache of Percy's personal papers that were previously unpublished. These documents allowed the author to gain a remarkable insight into the charactor and thought processes of his subject. The inventory of items Grann had the opportunity to look at included Fawcett's diaries and logbooks, the correspondance of his closest exploring companions and his most bitter rivals as well as journals from his military unit during the first World War. As such, it is safe to say that you will find information in this book you simply won't see anywhere else.
Reading "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession In the Amazon" has introduced me to a whole new genre of non-fiction books. I will likely seek out other titles about explorers and exploration. The truth is that David Grann grabbed my complete attention in the first few pages and never let go. I could not put it down. Very highly recommended!
29 of 33 found the following review helpful:
 Get it from the library, if you must Jul 18, 2009
By Andrew Berschauer
3/4+ of the way through the book the author makes a statement that he's now ready to tell the story of Percy Fawcett and Z. While this was a reference to the completeness of his information gathering, for me it was allegory for the story, itself.
I liked the background on Fawcett, and I liked the technique the author used to go back and forth between Fawcett's expeditions and Grann's preparations. I ended up not liking the fact that nearly the entire book was context setting for what turned out to be a non-expedition by the author and a non-story about Z.
***Spoiler Alert***
The author ends up speaking with the tribes who were thought to have killed Fawcett, but as a reader you come away with the feeling that even they don't remember the story of this guy - and why would they? Fawcett was just another interloper. Grann's following Fawcett's footsteps was a non-event in the story, and probably in actuality, as well.
There was an element of comedy to Grann's research. I laughed out loud when family members all of a sudden opened up to Grann with never-before-seen diaries. Why Grann when so many others had tried to find Fawcett before him? What was it about the self-proclaimed Twinkie-eater (I made that up, I don't remember how Grann described himself, but that captures the essence) that inspired confidence that maybe *he* can bring closure?
The story of Z? Conclusion: "who knows" Riveting, it isn't. Where there was a potential story (archaeologist Michael Heckenberger's research), the author doesn't appear to have been granted enough time to write more than a few paragraphs.
*** End Spoiler ***
All in all, a decent, enjoyable overview of an explorer I'd never heard of, but a lousy job of joining the loose ends the author weaves his story from. I don't doubt the accuracy of the re-telling of Fawcett's exploits, but I don't believe a word of any new insights uncovered from Grann's research.
36 of 42 found the following review helpful:
Revealing the Mysteries of the Amazon Feb 12, 2009
By Erika Borsos
"pepper flower"
David Grann has written an exciting book about adventure, exploration, and a mysterious disappearance which occurred in the mid 1920s. Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett had a hardy constitution and a strong desire to find a lost civilization purported to exist within the Amazon jungle of Brazil. The story about such a civilization had been passed around by the Spanish conquistadors, among the first Europeans to explore South America. With the blessing of the Royal Geographical Society based in London, Percy Harrison Fawcett ventured forth with his son and his son's friend along with a local guide and carefully selected equipment. Percy Fawcett had participated in previous expeditions to this part of the world. He survived some harrowing challenges in the past, risking his life to discover and map this part of the world. His wife accepted her husband's need to explore as his destiny. It was a fire which burned within his soul, something he could never give up..
In 1888 he was a twenty one year old Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery for Great Britain and stationed in Ceylon. Part of his love of adventure and exploration developed at this time. It was in Ceylon he had received a letter with mysterious script which had been translated to relay information about lost treasure in a cave. He took a leave and discovered verdant jungles, lovely mountains, pristine beaches and people wearing flowing outfits in all the colors of the rainbow. Fawcett discovered some ruins but never did find lost treasure. However, the rumor of treasure from an ancient king buried in the region awakened his spirit and created a restlessness and need to travel and explore which would stay with him the rest of his life. It was also in Ceylon where he first fell in love. Through fate he and his wife met and socialized but eventually parted due to family interference. Later when they met again, their love was rekindled into full bloom and they married.
David Grann did a vast amount of reading and research to create a book which holds the reader's interest from start to finish. One feels the strong principles and beliefs which Percy Fawcett developed over time which would not let up until he made his last and most dangerous trek into the jungle to find the lost "City of Z" which he named the ancient city he was seeking. The author writes a superb biography of this adventurer and explorer. The dangers and risks are described in detail which anyone faced who entered this wild environment. There were hostile Indian tribes. Besides the threat of being killed by Indians, explorers faced malaria infested mosquitos, pirhanas, maggots that burrowed under human flesh and the deadly pit viper snake. We must keep in mind that there were no antibiotics or other medicines to treat various illnesses. Amazingly, the author also chose to enter the Amazon jungle and retrace the route which Percy Fawcett and his entourage took in order to learn more about the man and his disappearance. He and his guide met with an indiginous Indian tribe, the Kalapalos, who knew about Percy's expedition. There is a very satisfying conclusion to the book which realistically explains and solves the mysterious disappearance of Percy Harrison Fawcett and his exploration group. This is a most highly recommended book. Erika Borsos [pepper flower]
18 of 20 found the following review helpful:
Very good book on an interesting man and his obsession Feb 10, 2009
By J. Miller
"Heresy"
I had never heard of Fawcett or "Z" before I read this book but found the description too interesting to pass up. It turned out to be a very good read and a real page turner; I know it sounds a bit clichéd but this is really one of those books that's hard to put down after finishing a chapter (...just one more then I'll go to sleep.)
Grann does a good job of conveying both Fawcett's fascination with the Amazon and his obsession with finding 'Z' and, I think, settles the mystery of his disappearance. Granns own adventure into the Amazon helps contrast how things have changed and how they have stayed the same since Fawcetts explorations.
The thing that was really missing in the book are maps and pictures; it would have made the book so much more immersive. Even a crude map with locations of some of the villages and routes taken by the different expeditions would have been great. Hopefully this is corrected in the actual release edition and they just didn't have them in the advanced reader copies.
4 1/2 Stars (5 stars if the release copies have pictures/maps.)
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