Colonel Fawcett and the Lost City of Z: The Explorer Who Walked Into the Amazon and Never Came Out
In the summer of 1925, a British colonel named Percy Harrison Fawcett plunged into the dense green vastness of the Brazilian Amazon in search of a ruined city he was certain lay hidden somewhere in the unmapped interior. He took with him his elder son, Jack, and Jack's close friend, Raleigh Rimell, along with a small party of porters and pack animals. On the twenty-ninth of May, from a place he called Dead Horse Camp, he sent out a last message by runner, telling his wife not to fear failure. Then the three Englishmen walked north into the trees, and the forest closed behind them. They were never seen again. In the century since, more than a hundred people are said to have died or vanished trying to find out what became of them, and the fate of Colonel Fawcett has become one of the greatest mysteries in the whole history of exploration. A Soldier Turned Explorer Fawcett was, by any measure, an extraordinary man. A trained army officer and surveyor, he had spent years in South Am...