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Название:
The Lost City of Z
Автор:
David Grann
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Doubleday
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Прочие приключения / на английском языке
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2009
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New York
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A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it.
is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed
writer David Grann set out to solve “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century:” What happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z?
In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization, hoping to make one of the most important discoveries in history. For centuries Europeans believed the world’s largest jungle concealed the glittering kingdom of El Dorado. Thousands had died looking for it, leaving many scientists convinced that the Amazon was truly inimical to humankind. But Fawcett, whose daring expeditions helped inspire Conan Doyle’s
, had spent years building his scientific case. Captivating the imagination of millions around the globe, Fawcett embarked with his twenty-one-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilization—which he dubbed “Z”—existed. Then he and his expedition vanished.
Fawcett’s fate—and the tantalizing clues he left behind about “Z”—became an obsession for hundreds who followed him into the uncharted wilderness. For decades scientists and adventurers have searched for evidence of Fawcett’s party and the lost City of Z. Countless have perished, been captured by tribes, or gone mad. As David Grann delved ever deeper into the mystery surrounding Fawcett’s quest, and the greater mystery of what lies within the Amazon, he found himself, like the generations who preceded him, being irresistibly drawn into the jungle’s “green hell.” His quest for the truth and his stunning discoveries about Fawcett’s fate and “Z” form the heart of this complex, enthralling narrative.

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178 “impoverished and backward”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, pp. 212-13.

178 “Lat x+4 to x + 5”:Nina Fawcett to Large, June 10, 1921, Fawcett Family Papers.

178 May “protection” be:Jack Fawcett to Fawcett, March 3, 1920, Fawcett Family Papers.

178 “get alarmed at”:Fawcett to James Rowsell, June 10, 1921, TNA.

178 “I am going to”:Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 2, 1920, RGS.

179 “More than half ill”:Holt diary, Oct. 24-26, 1920, ADAH.

179 “giving me”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 218.

179 “It was rather”:Ibid., p. 192.

179 “It is awful”:Holt diary, Nov. 18, 1920.

179 “Never mind me”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 217.

179 “There was nothing”:Ibid.

180 “The exit from Hell”:Holt diary, Nov. 17, 1920.

180 “What does it mean”:Nina Fawcett to Large, Jan. 26, 1921, Fawcett Family Papers.

180 “Col. Fawcett’s expedition”:Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Anglo-Brazilian Chronicle, April 2, 1932.

180 “You are a strong”:Harriett S. Cohen to Holt, Jan. 28, 1921, ADAH.

181 “Unfortunately we live”:Fawcett to Holt, Aug. 18, 1921, ADAH.

181 “After close association”:Holt diary, Aug. 17, 1921.

181 “convinced I am”:Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 5, 1923, PHFP.

181 “I longed for the day”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 222.

181 “the prospects of returning”:Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 4, 1920, RGS.

182 “Loneliness is not”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 238.

182 “I must return”:Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 235.

CHAPTER 18: A SCIENTIFIC OBSESSION

183 “It’s up to you”:Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 16.

183 “[Lawrence] may be”:Fawcett to Harold Large, March 26, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

184 “of faith, courage”:Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 5, 1923, PHFP.

184 “I want to go”:Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 16.

184 “unsatisfied and unsettled”:Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

184 “both strong as”:Fawcett to Large, Feb. 5, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

184 “I can only say”:Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, April 4, 1924, RGS.

185 “All water has”:Nina Fawcett to Large, Nov. 26, 1922, Fawcett Family Papers.

185 “The situation is”:Fawcett to Large, Oct. 16, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

185 “My man actually”:Nina Fawcett to Large, July 18, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

185 “I wish you”:Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 29, 1923, RGS.

185 “P.H.F. was in”:Nina Fawcett to Large, Aug. 14, 1922, Fawcett Family Papers.

185 “My father’s impatience”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 275.

186 “Archeological and ethnological”:Fawcett to Large, Oct. 16, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

186 “the money wasted”:Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 29, 1921, RGS.

186 “men of science”:Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 208.

186 “all the skepticism”:Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 1, 1924, RGS.

186 “going to see”:Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 18, 1922, RGS.

186 “The valley and city”:Mrs. Letheran to Fawcett, Oct. 9, 1919, Fawcett Family Papers.

186 “the treasures of”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Planetary Control,” p. 347.

186 “a trifle unbalanced”:George Miller Dyott to Arthur R. Hinks, June 24, 1927, RGS.

186 “scientific maniac”:Stanley Allen, New Haven Register, n.d., RGS.

186 “mental storms”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Obsession.”

186 “The Mining Syndicate”:Fawcett to Large, Oct. 19, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

186 “It seemed as”:Jack Fawcett to Windust, Dec. 2, 1924, PHFP.

187 “A short time”:Jack Fawcett to Windust, Oct. 28, 1924, PHFP.

187 “The capacity for love”:Fay Brodie-Junes to Nina Fawcett, n.d., Fawcett Family Papers.

187 “the Gods will”:Fawcett to Large, Oct. 19, 1923, Fawcett Family Papers.

188 “a supply of bombs”: New York Times, Oct. 4, 1924.

188 “the whole method”: New York Times, Aug. 12, 1924.

188 “highly respectable man”:Fawcett to Hinks, Dec. 23, 1924, RGS.

188 “to get into touch”:Jack Fawcett to Windust, Oct. 28, 1924, PHFP.

189 “the finest exploration”:Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.

189 “We have known”: Atlanta Constitution, Jan. 12, 1925.

190 “I judge from Lynch’s”:Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 4, 1924, RGS.

190 “a modern Columbus”:Fawcett to Keltie, Oct. 10, 1924, RGS.

190 “The R.G.S. bred me”:Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 2, 1924, RGS.

190 “If they don’t”:Nina Fawcett to Large, March 31, 1927, Fawcett Family Papers.

190 “Not a sum”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

190 “In some ways”:Fawcett to Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.

190 “a fine young fellow”:Reeves, Recollections of a Geographer, p. 98.

190 “I shall rejoice”:Fawcett to Keltie, Nov. 10, 1924, RGS.

191 “In two years’ time”:Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 46.

191 “[He] succumbed”:Fawcett to Hinks, Dec. 23, 1924, RGS.

191 “must have suffered”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

191 “the plan can”:Isaiah Bowman to Rockefeller, Jan. 3, 1925, AGS.

192 “He did precipitate”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

192 “I am a great believer”:Fawcett to Keltie, Dec. 25, 1924, RGS.

192 “the honour of immortality”:Fawcett to Bowman, Dec. 15, 1924, AGS.

CHAPTER 19: AN UNEXPECTED CLUE

194 In 2004: New York Times, Dec. 29, 2006.

196 Although he made:Nina Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, Nov. 17, 1927, RGS.

196 “would preserve a higher”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Proposal for a S. American Expedition,” April 4, 1924, RGS.

CHAPTER 20: HAVE NO FEAR

197 “At least forty million”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 278.

197 “No Olympic games”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1925.

197 “Aren’t the reports”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 280.

197 Brazilian authorities:Fawcett to John Scott Keltie, Feb. 4, 1925, RGS.

198 “They do not want”:Ibid.

198 “We have met”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 7, 1925, RGS.

198 the daughter of:Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 22.