David Grann - The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Reviews

The Lost City of Z is a fascinating account of Col. Percy Fawcett, one of the last and most famous "individualist" explorers who helped to map the Amazon and became fatally obsessed with finding conclusive evidence of a sophisticated and large civilization in the Amazon jungle which he referred to as The Lost City of Z. 

I started reading this book at my wife's suggestion.  She went to college with the author, David Grann.  I continued reading it because it was educational, fascinating, and very well written.  The story of Col Fawcett is told by the author both as a well researched piece of...