The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

by David Grann

Book Overview

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager comes a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction "with all the pace and excitement of a movie thriller"(The New York Times) that unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century--the story of the legendary British explorer who ventured into the Amazon jungle in search of a fabled civilization and never returned.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400078458
• ISBN13: 9781400078455
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

A true great adventure novel

Excellently researched and written, a definite page turner of true amazing expeditions.

A good read for history buffs

I enjoyed it, its not an adventure book so much as a narration of the world around a man as he goes through a jungle, at least thats what it kind of feels like. If you like learning about interesting history than this is a good book to pick up.

A tough slog....

....reading the book. The subject matter is fascinating, although I found it a bit of a struggle to complete the book. The book's many diversions into backstory, side story, 'what is happening back home', and present (there are two 'presents', in a sense) eliminated most of the tension from the Fawcett's jungle adventures.

Fantastic Book

I included Fawcett in my book, Vanished, published in 2007. For all the people profiled in my book, I used many primary sources and then at least one good authoritative secondary source. For Fawcett, I found none that can rival Grann's book. This is the best book written on the missing explorer. Fawcett is a fantastically intersting figure and deserves to be better known in North America than he is. Grann's book brings him to life like no other I've read - I highly recommend it.