David Grann - The Lost City of Z - A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

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.

217 “ruined architecture”:Rice, “Rio Branco, Uraricuera, and Parima,” p. 218.

218 “I don't feel”: New York Times, Sept. 17, 2003.

218 “the highest concentration”: Economist, July 24, 2004.

218 On February 12:See New York Times, May 16, 2007; Baltimore Sun, March 14, 2005; and Dayton Daily News, Aug. 14, 2007.

219 But I soon discovered:My account of Petersen's death is based on my interviews with Eduardo Neves and on newspaper accounts.

221 “Fawcett's dream”:Verne, Bob Moran and the Fawcett Mystery, p. 76.

221 “I'm an archeologist”:MacGregor, Indiana Jones and the Seven Veils, p. 58.

222 “My son, lame”:Ibid., p. 2.

225 “Any day now”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.

225 “I believe firmly”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 1, 1928.

225 “I think it”:Nina Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, July 11, 1927, RGS.

225 “Mother! I feel”:Nina Fawcett to Harold Large, Nov. 23, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.