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Grann, David.
The lost city of Z :
a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon /
David Grann.
Tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon.
1st Vintage Departures ed.
New York :
Vintage Books,
2010.
xi, 400 p., [16] p. of plates :
ill., maps, ports. ;
21 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-383) and index.
We shall return -- The vanishing -- The search begins -- Buried treasure -- Blank spots on the map -- The disciple -- Freeze-dried ice cream and adrenaline socks -- Into the Amazon -- The secret papers -- The green hell -- Dead Horse Camp -- In the hands of the gods -- Ransom -- The case for Z -- El Dorado -- The locked box -- The whole world is mad -- A scientific obsession -- An unexpected clue -- Have no fear -- The last eyewitness -- Dead or alive -- The colonel's bones -- The other world -- Z.
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." --from publisher description.
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Fawcett, Percy Harrison,
1867-1925?
Travel
Amazon River Region.
Fawcett, Percy Harrison,
1867-1925?
Death and burial.
Grann, David
Travel
Amazon River Region.
El Dorado.
Explorers--Amazon River Region.
Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925?--Death and burial.
Fawcett, Percy Harrison, 1867-1925?--Travel--Amazon River Region.
Grann, David--Travel--Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region -- Description and travel.
Explorers
Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region
Description and travel.