The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

This book was a good read and I am excited about viewing the movie this weekend. The author, David Grann, has a writing style that keeps the story interesting. Even though we know what happens in the end since it's a true story, Fawcett's process of exploration and discovery was very revealing and educational for those interested in an explorer's life during the Victorian era up to PHF's disappearance in 1925. It's even more tragic that his young son Jack and Jack's best friend had to perish along with PHF. Also, I enjoyed reading about the indigenous people in the Amazon.

The Lost City of Z is a wonderful book written to document the search for two treasures, the mythical Lost City of Z (a large civilization in the middle of the Amazon), and Col Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon searching for Z. Once I began reading The Lost City of Z I couldn't put the book down. It alternated between background information on both the List City of Z and Col Fawcett. I enjoyed the book tremendously until I reached the final chapter. Here the tone of the book changes and the ending was very anticlimactic. I recommend this book to anyone with a sense of adventure and history. But, the ending is disappointing.

A wonderful and compelling story. I've been interested in anthropology and archaeology since I was a kid, and this is one of the big questions about the history of the early america's. Were there any large settlements in the Amazon or was Carvajal's description of Orellana's trip down the Amazon a tall tale or a true accounting? Ancient civilizations fascinate me. The dual narrative of the life of Fawcett and the search for Fawcett was well told and well paced. The eBook was formatted well, with a few punctuation errors (mostly hyphenated words that didn't need to be).