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The Lost City of Z
Author: David Grann
Published: 2009
Publisher: Doubleday
ISBN: 9780385529228
Format: ebook
Pages: 376
File size (e-book): 3.8 MB
Chosen by: Cayce
Meeting: 2018-09-10 (meeting #20)
Description:

In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization.  He never returned.  Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.”  In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.