David Grann - The Lost City of Z - A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker 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 The Lost World, 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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226 “Father has got”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.
226 “Have they been”:Ibid.
226 Several decades later:Cowell, Tribe That Hides from Man, p. 93.
226 “Explorer Called Dupe”: Washington Post, Sept. 12, 1927.
226 “escape from”: Independent, Sept. 24, 1927.
226 “described Daddy exactly”:Brian Fawcett to Nina, Sept. 23, 1927, RGS.
226 “I was boiling”:Nina Fawcett to Hinks, Oct. 24, 1927, RGS.
226 “As the story grew”:Nina Fawcett to Courteville, Aug. 1, 1928, RGS.
227 “One cannot tell”: Los Angeles Times, July 17, 1927.
227 “No better man”:Ibid.
227 “we hold ourselves”:D. G. Hogarth, “Address at the Anniversary General Meeting, 20 June 1927,” Geographical Journal, Aug. 1927, p. 100.
227 “I am thirty-six years”:R. Bock to D. G. Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.
227 “I am prepared”:Robert Bunio to Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.
227 “My wife and I”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.
228 “whether there is”:Ibid.
228 “We consider that”:Geoffrey Steele-Ronan to Hogarth, June 21, 1927, RGS.
228 “romantic story”:St. Clair, Mighty, Mighty Amazon, p. 254.
228 To succeed, Dyott: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1929.
229 “camped in some”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 6, 1927.
229 “supreme courage”:Ibid.
229 “A big man”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 13, 1927.
229 “They have come”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 14, 1927.
229 “There are applicants”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.
229 “Perhaps if there”: Independent, Dec. 3, 1927.
230 “I am most anxious”:Roger Rimell to RGS, 1933, RGS.
230 “I know of no”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 1927.
230 “I can't take”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 27, 1927.
230 “creature comforts”:Ibid.
230 “a display of unselfish”: Los Angeles Times, March 28, 1928.
230 “fills me with”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 17, 1927.
230 “On behalf of”:John James Whitehead diary, March 1, 1928, RGS.
231 “Cecil B. DeMille safari”:Kigar, “Phantom Trail of Colonel Fawcett,” p. 21.
231 “the dregs of civilization”:Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 85.
231 “Fawcett's trail loomed”:Ibid., p. 135.
231 “How different would”:Whitehead diary, May 28, 1928, RGS.
231 “I first heard”:McIntyre, “The Commander and the Mystic,” p. 5.
232 “We came across”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 18, 1928.
232 “These new denizens”:Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 173.
232 “He regarded us”:Ibid., p. 177.
232 “We cannot predict”:Whitehead diary, July 24, 1928, RGS.
233 “The finger of guilt”:Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 236.
233 “I am so afraid”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 16, 1928.
233 “couldn't eat”:Whitehead diary, Aug. 12, 1928, RGS.
233 “Remember,” Dyott:Ibid., July 25, 1928.
234 “Natives from tribes”:Stanley Allen, New Haven Register, n.d., RGS.
234 “Am sorry to report”:Dyott to NANA (radio dispatch), Aug. 16, 1928, RGS.
234 “We want to”:Whitehead diary, Sept. 28, 1928, RGS.
234 “You can be”: Chicago Daily Tribune, March 19, 1930.
235 “Indian psychology”:Dyott, Man Hunting in the Jungle, p. 264.
235 “Dyott… must have”:Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 71.
235 “There is consequently”:Nina Fawcett to NANA, Aug. 23, 1928, RGS.
235 “never give up”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 22, 1928.
235 “Do not lose”:Esther Windust to Elsie Rimell, Dec. 14, 1928, PHFP.
236 “all hope of”:Abbott to Charles Goodwin, March 22, 1932, FO 743/16, TNA.
236 “My name is Stefan”:Translated statement of Stefan Rattin, prepared by Charles Goodwin and sent to Sir William Seeds, March 18, 1932, FO 743/17, TNA.
236 “only known to me”:Abbott to Hinks, Dec. 8, 1932, RGS.
236 “dare not build my”:H. Kingsley Long, “The Faith of Mrs. Fawcett,” Passing Show, Nov. 12, 1932.
236 “I promised Colonel”: Chicago Daily Tribune, March 20, 1932.
236 “Rattin is anxious”: Washington Post, May 28, 1932.
237 “given up the imitation”: Washington Post, Sept. 30, 1934.
237 “Albert Winton, Los Angeles”: Los Angeles Times, Feb. 4, 1934.
237 “this grave turn”:George W. Cumbler to British Consulate Office, Oct. 17, 1934, RGS.
237 Only years later:Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 700.
238 “The Indians are going”: New York Times, Aug. 12, 1939.
238 “I tried to save”: O Globo, Aug. 23, 1946.
238 In 1947:See Childress, Lost Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America, pp. 303-5.
239 “You have always”:Hinks to Nina Fawcett, Oct. 25, 1928, RGS.
239 “more than one passport”:Nina Fawcett to A. Bain Mackie, June 20, 1935, RGS.
239 “My heart is lacerated”:Nina Fawcett to Large, May 6, 1929, Fawcett Family Papers.
240 “Lady Fawcett is suffering”:A. Bachmann to Hinks, Feb. 12, 1934, RGS.
240 “so that they shall”:Nina Fawcett to Large, Fawcett Family Papers.
240 “I shall act on”:Edward Douglas Fawcett to Hinks, 1933, RGS.
240 “I am one”:Nina Fawcett to Thomas Roch, March 10, 1934, RGS.
240 Large referred to:Large to Nina Fawcett, April 16, 1925, Fawcett Family Papers.
240 “The return of her”:Mackie to Goodwin, Nov. 21, 1933, TNA.
240 “I get the impression”:Nina Fawcett to Reverend Monseigneur Couturon, July 3, 1933, RGS.
241 “the most primitive”:Moennich, Pioneering for Christ in Xingu Jungles, p. 9.
241 In 1937:Ibid., pp. 17-18.
241 “In his dual nature”:Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 301.
241 “not only to learn”:Moennich, Pioneering for Christ in Xingu Jungles, pp. 124-26.
241 “perhaps the most famous”: New York Times, Jan. 6, 1935.
241 a “freak”:“The ‘Grandson,' ” Time, Jan. 24, 1944.
241 “matters are rather”:Hinks to Morel, Feb. 16, 1944, RGS.
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