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23 “a corpse piece”:Quoted in Millard, River of Doubt, p. 168.

29 many archaeologists and geographers:For a much more detailed discussion of the academic debate over advanced civilizations in the Amazon, see Mann’s 1491.

30 “counterfeit paradise”:See Meggers, Amazonia.

30 “cultural substitutes”:Ibid., p. 104.

30 “This is the jungle”:Cowell, Tribe That Hides from Man, p. 66.

30 As Charles Mann notes:Mann, 1491, p. 9.

30 “the most culturally”:Holmberg, Nomads of the Long Bow, p. 17.

30 “No records”:Ibid., p. 122.

30 “concept of romantic”:Ibid., p. 161.

30 “man in the”:Ibid., p. 261.

30 a more sophisticated:Mann, 1491, p. 328.

33 “the callowest”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Passing of Trinco,” p. 110.

34 “Beneath these rocks”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Gold Bricks at Badulla,” p. 223.

34 “As an impecunious”:Ibid., p. 232.

34 “possessed great abilities”:From a self-published article by Timothy Paterson, “Douglas Fawcett and Imaginism,” p. 2.

35 “Her unhappy married”:Ibid.

35 “hateful”:Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.

35 “Perhaps it was all”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 15.

35 “did nothing to”:Ibid., p. 16.

35 notion of a gentleman:For details on the Victorian customs and ethos, see the 1865 manual The Habits of Good Society; Campbell, Etiquette of Good Society; and Bristow, Vice and Vigilance.

35 “the memorable horror”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 211.

36 “craving for sensual”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Obsession,” p. 476.

36 “a natural leader”:Girouard, Return to Camelot, p. 260.

36 “it takes something”:From a newspaper article in Fawcett’s scrapbook, Fawcett Family Papers. 36

36 Royal Military Academy at Woolwich:See Guggisberg, Shop.

36 “The fashion of torture”:Ibid., p. 57.

36 “to regard the risk”:Hankey, Student in Arms, p. 87.

37 Now, as Fawcett:Details of Sri Lanka in the 1890s come from various books of the time, including Ferguson, Ceylon in 1893; Willis, Ceylon; and Cave, Golden Tips.

37 “Dear me”:Twain, Following the Equator, p. 336.

38 “I’m afraid”:Fawcett, “Gold Bricks at Badulla,” p. 225.

38 “Did the hound”:Ibid., p. 231.

38 “Ceylon is a very”:Ibid., p. 232.

39 “He obviously did”:Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 16.

39 “the way the ladies”:Quotation from a newspaper article found in Fawcett’s scrap-book, Fawcett Family Papers.

39 “the only one”: Curieux, Sept. 26, 1951.

39 “she always had”:Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 18.

40 “I was very happy”: Curieux, Sept. 26, 1951.

40 “My life would”:Ibid.

40 “a silly old”:Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.

40 “You are not”:Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 3.

40 “It took me”: Curieux, Sept. 26, 1951.

40 “Destiny cruelly”:Ibid.

40 “Go… and marry”:Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 3. A similar account can be found in Hambloch, Here and There.

40 “begged her to”:My interview with Fawcett’s granddaughter, Rolette.

40 “I thought I had”: Curieux, Sept. 26, 1951.

41 “A particularly beautiful”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, letter to the editor, Occult Review, Feb. 1913, p. 80.

41 “lone wolf”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 16.

41 Madame Blavatsky:See Meade, Madame Blavatsky; Washington, Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon; and Oppenheim, Other World.

41 “a genius”:Meade, Madame Blavatsky, p. 40.

42 “She weighed more”:Ibid., p. 8.

42 “the most human”:Kelly, Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, p. 164.

42 “addicted to table-rapping”:Oppenheim, Other World, p. 28.

42 “I suppose I am”:Stashower, Teller of Tales, p. 405.

43 “For those who”:Oppenheim, Other World, p. 184.

43 “The ceremony commenced”: Dublin Review, July- Oct. 1890, p. 56.

44 “At the very time”:A. N. Wilson, Victorians, p. 551.

44 “I transgressed again”:Fawcett, “Passing of Trinco,” p. 116.

44 In the late 1860s:See Stanley, How I Found Livingstone; and Jeal, Livingstone.

45 “E. M. Forster once”:Pritchett, Tale Bearers, p. 25.

45 “wild-man that eats”:Edward Douglas Fawcett, Swallowed by an Earthquake, p. 180.

45 “most venturesome”:Edward Douglas Fawcett, Secret of the Desert, p. 206.

46 “possibly thinking”:Ibid., p. 3.

46 “strange ruins”:Ibid., p. 49.

46 “we would-be”:Ibid., p. 146.

46 “I was overcome”:Ibid., p. 195.

46 “He won’t”:Ibid., p. 237.

46 “Everywhere about me”:Fawcett, “Passing of Trinco,” p. 116.

47 “the city has vanished”:Walters, Palms and Pearls, p. 94.

47 “old Ceylon is”:Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 23, 1924, PHFP.

47 “a geography militant”:Conrad, “Geography and Some Explorers,” p. 6.

49 One person who:Steve Kemper’s 1995 account, “Fawcett’s Wake,” provided to author.

49 For ages, cartographers:Information on the history of maps and geography is drawn largely from Wilford, Mapmakers; Brown, Story of Maps; Sobel, Longitude; Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World; and De Camp and Ley, Lands Beyond.

50 “with every kind”:Quoted in Brehaut, Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages, p. 244.

50 “I, Prester John”:Quoted in Bergreen, Over the Edge of the World, p. 77.

50 “to the dearest son”:Quoted in De Camp and Ley, Lands Beyond, p. 148.

51 “the Discovery of”:Wilford, Mapmakers, p. 153.

51 Finally, in the nineteenth:For information on the history of the RGS, see Mill, Record of the Royal Geographical Society; Cameron, To the Farthest Ends of the Earth; and Keltie, “Thirty Years’ Work of the Royal Geographical Society.”