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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...
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