2024/055: The Lost City of Z — David Grann

2024/055: The Lost City of Z — David Grann

...in Fawcett’s mind, what he had been taught his whole life about the superiority of Western civilization clashed with what he experienced beyond its shores. “I transgressed again and again the awful laws of traditional behavior, but in doing so learned a great deal..” [loc. 650]

In which journalist David Grann becomes fascinated by the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon jungle in 1925 (along with his son and his son's best friend) while searching for a mythical Lost City that he codenamed Z. Grann does a certain amount of following-in-the-footsteps, but he's as intrigued by Fawcett's failings as by the legends that were his obsession.

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