Lost City of Z (Grann)

The Lost City of Z
David Grann, 2005, 2009
Knopf Doubleday
352 pp.
ISBN-13: 9781400078455


Summary
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. (From the publisher.)

The Lost City of Z was adapted to film in 2016 and stars Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson and Sienna Miller.