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David Grann - The Lost City of Z

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Название:
The Lost City of Z
Автор:
David Grann
Издательство:
Doubleday
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Прочие приключения / на английском языке
Год:
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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198 “I became acquainted”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.

198 “[The colonel] and Jack”:Ibid.

198 “[Raleigh] is much”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

198 “I suppose after”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.

198 “I don’t intend”:Ibid.

199 “A whole lot”:Ibid., p. 281.

199 “A snake-bite which bleeds”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 3, 1925. According to snake experts today, it is actually not possible to determine if a snake is poisonous simply based on whether the wound bleeds.

199 “I saw some quite”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 279.

199 “The lavatory”:Ibid., p. 281.

200 “I am now”:Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

200 “Raleigh is a funny”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 283.

200 “a desperate villain”:Ibid., p. 281.

200 “On Wednesday night”:Ibid., p. 282.

201 “almost big enough”:Raleigh Rimell to Dulcie Rimell, March 11, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

201 “Cuyaba will seem”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 281.

201 “Daddy says”:Ibid., p. 282.

201 “a God forsaken hole”:Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

201 Fawcett wrote:Fawcett to Harold Large, March 20, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

201 “Raleigh’s feet”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 284.

201 “[What] a hell”:Ibid., p. 283.

201 Raleigh boasted that:Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

202 “We are feeding”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 283.

202 “We intend to buy”:Ibid., p. 280.

202 “The horses being”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

203 “This is nothing”: Los Angeles Times, April 23, 1925.

203 “I have seen no reason”:Fawcett to Nina, March 6, 1925, RGS.

203 “Progress slow”:Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.

204 “If not over”:Stevens, “Hydroplane of the Hamilton Rice Expedition,” pp. 42- 43. Interestingly, in 1932, Stevens, while flying in a hot-air balloon, became the first photographer to capture the moon’s shadow on the earth during a solar eclipse. In 1935, he also broke the world record for the highest ascent in a balloon-a record that wouldn’t be surpassed for another twenty-one years.

205 “The palms below”:Ibid., pp. 35-36.

205 “the congratulations”:Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.

205 “Those regions”: New York Times, Aug. 24, 1924.

205 “The Brazilian jungle”: New York Times, July 11, 1925.

205 “communication by radio”:Royal Geographical Society, “Dr. Hamilton Rice on the Rio Branco,” p. 241.

205 “Whether it is”:Ibid.

205 “[A prospector] and”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 284.

206 “into a world”:Ahrens to Nina Fawcett, July 10, 1925, RGS.

206 “an excellent initiation”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 289.

206 “fish were literally”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.

206 “Daddy had gone”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 286.

206 “[Jack] has evidently”:Large to Nina Fawcett, May 24, 1929, Fawcett Family Papers.

208 “My father chose”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.

208 “the tickiest place”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.

208 “It is a saying”:Fawcett to Nina, May 20, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

208 “in spite of”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

209 “I think you”:Nina Fawcett to Large, Aug. 30, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

209 Galvão had pushed:For details on Galvão, see Leal, Coronel Fawcett.

209 “It was quite”:Translation and extract from the newspaper O Democrata, n.d., RGS.

209 “considerable danger”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.

210 “a pinprick”:John James Whitehead diary, June 8, 1928, RGS.

210 “the Brazilian methods”:Fawcett to Isaiah Bowman, May 20, 1925, NMAI.

210 “The Bakairís have been”:American Geographical Society, “Correspondence,” p. 696.

210 “They have in part”:Fawcett to Bowman, May 20, 1925, NMAI.

210 “They say the Bacairys”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, RGS.

210 “We have all clipped”:Ibid.

211 “about eight wild”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211 “To Jack’s great delight”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 290.

211 “We gave them”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211 “They are small”:Ibid.

211 “music was”:Nina Fawcett to the Brazilian ambassador, Feb. 3, 1937, RGS.

211 “I have never”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, RGS.

211 “absolutely unexplored”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 16, 1925, RGS.

211 “Years tell”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 291.

212 “The Fawcetts can”:Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 17, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

212 “That’s too deep”:Jack Fawcett to Nina and Joan, May 19, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

212 “I wish [Raleigh]”:Ibid.

212 “I wish to hell”: Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 17, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

212 “sense of inferiority”:Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

213 “witnessed throughout”:Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 140.

213 “lot of stick-throwers”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2, 1925.

213 In the late eighteenth century:For information about the Xavante and the Kayapós, see Hemming, Die If You Must, pp. 86-132.

213 “from that time”:Quoted in ibid., p. 95.

213 “It is obviously”:Fawcett to Keltie, March 17, 1925, RGS.

214 “I believe our”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 2, 1925.

214 “I suspect constitutional”:Fawcett to Nina, May 29, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.

214 “By the time”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 1925.

214 “I shall look”:Raleigh Rimell to Roger Rimell, March 5, 1925, Rimell Family Papers.

214 “You need have”:Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 291.