The Lost City of Z is at once a biography, a detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing that combines Bruce Chatwinesque powers of observation with a Waugh-like sense of the absurd. Mr. Grann treats us to a harrowing reconstruction of Fawcett's forays into the Amazonian jungle, as well as an evocative rendering of the vanished age of exploration.

There is something about Fawcett's spirit and self-assurance that captivates To read The Lost City of Z is to feel grateful that Grann himself bothered to set out for the Amazon in search of the bones of an explorer whose body was long ago reclaimed by the jungle.

In 1925, the legendary British exptorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization located deep in the deadly wilderness. He never returned. In this master piece of narrative nOnfiction, journalist David Grann tells the epic story of Fawcett's quest for this "Lost City of Z, as he greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.

Maps

Preface

1 We Shall Return

2 TheVanishing

3 The Search Begins

4 Buried Treasure

5 Blank Spots on the Map

6 The Disciple

7 Freeze-Dried Ice Cream and Adrenaline Socks

8 Into the Amazon

9 The Secret Papers

10 The Green Hell

11 Dead Horse Camp

12 In the Hands of the Gods

13 Ransom

14 The Case forZ

15 El Dorado

16 The Locked Box

17 The Whole World Is Mad

18 A Scientific Obsession

19 An Unexpected Clue

20 Have No Fear

21 The Last Eyewitness

22 Dead or Alive

23 The Colonel's Bones

24 The OtherWorld

25 Z

Acknowledgments

A Note on the Sources

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index