The Lost City of Z

A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

New York : Vintage Books, 2010.

Format: Book

Edition: First Vintage Departures edition.

Description: xi, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm

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."--Publisher description.

Contents: We shall return -- The vanishing -- The search begins -- Buried treasure -- Blank spots on the map -- The disciple -- Freeze-dried ice cream and adrenaline socks -- Into the Amazon -- The secret papers -- The green hell -- Dead Horse Camp -- In the hands of the gods -- Ransom -- The case for Z -- El Dorado -- The locked box -- The whole world is mad -- A scientific obsession -- An unexpected clue -- Have no fear -- The last eyewitness -- Dead or alive -- The colonel's bones -- The other world -- Z.

Subjects:
Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925? -- Travel -- Amazon River Region.
Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925? -- Death and burial.
Grann, David -- Travel -- Amazon River Region.
El Dorado.
Explorers -- Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region -- Description and travel.

ISBN: 9781400078455

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