EAN: 9781398540668

GRANN DAVID THE LOST CITY OF Z

**NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING ROBERT PATTINSON  CHARLIE HUNNAM AND SIENNA MILLER**    The story
of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett  the inspiration behind Conan Doyle' s  The Lost World   
Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the
Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large  complex civilization  like El
Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery  he christened it the City of Z. In 1925  Fawcett headed
into the wilderness with his son Jack  vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. 
For the next eighty years  hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle  trying to find evidence
of Fawcett' s party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation  others simply disappeared.
In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession  David Grann retraces the footsteps of
Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration.   ‘A
riveting  exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure’  JOHN GRISHAM    ‘A wonderful
story of a lost age of heroic exploration’ Sunday Times    ‘Marvellous ... An engrossing book
whose protagonist could out-think Indiana Jones ’  Daily Telegraph    ‘ The best story in the
world   told perfectly’  Evening Standard

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