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BOOK
Title Lost City of Z FTI
Imprint Simon & Schuster UK, 2017

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 Stadsbibl:Slottet vån 4 Geografi och historia  918.1 engelska    DUE 24-04-08  ---
Descript 337 sidor 19.8 cm
Note Originally published: 2009
Includes bibliographical references and index
The story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's The Lost World. Fawcett was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilisation, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration
Subject 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
Upptäcktsresande
Amazonområdet
Amazon River Region -- Description and travel
Classmark 918.11
ISBN/ISSN 9781471164910 pocket
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