Exploration Fawcett, Lt. Col. P. H. Fawcett Edited by Brian Fawcett
Exploration Fawcett, Lt. Col. P. H. Fawcett Edited by Brian Fawcett
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Exploration Fawcett
Journey to the Lost City of Z

Author: Lt. Col. P. H. Fawcett; Edited by Brian Fawcett

Narrator: Robin Sachs

Unabridged: 15 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/25/2010

Synopsis

This is the true story of the real Colonel Fawcett, whose life was the inspiration for the bestselling book The Lost City of Z and an upcoming movie starring Brad Pitt. A thrilling account, it tells of Colonel Fawcett and his mysterious disappearance in the Amazon jungle, which is now considered one of the greatest mysteries of the twentieth century.The mystic and legendary British explorer Lt. Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the unknown and unexplored territory of Brazils Mato Grosso in 1925. For ten years he had wandered the forests and deathfilled rivers in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time with two companions, one of whom was his eldest son, to destination Z, never to be heard from again. This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcetts ten years of travels in deadly jungles and forests in search of a secret city was compiled by his younger son from manuscripts, letters, and logbooks. What happened to him after remains a mystery.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Feisty Harriet on September 20, 2016

A few months ago I read (and fell in love with) The Lost City of Z by David Grann and the story of Colonel Fawcett, famed South American explorer of the early 1900′s. This book is Fawcett’s own papers, edited by his son, about his adventures in Brazil, Bolivia and Peru leading up to his last explora......more

Goodreads review by Carl on December 04, 2024

Hard core adventure that puts Indiana Jones to shame. Fawcett wrote this account of his Amazonian adventures for his son before embarking on a doomed expedition to discover a fabled city of gold. The PBS documentary "Lost in the Amazon" presents a compelling reconstruction of the what might have hap......more

Goodreads review by Kaashvi on June 01, 2024

This book is one of my favourites and it helped me when I wrote my dissertation on the Amazon. It made me slightly emotional because it’s a heavy topic and so many have lost their lives either trying to defend their way of life in the Amazon, or exploring the Amazon leaving their lives in civilisati......more

Goodreads review by caoboi on September 05, 2017

fascinating story but not very well told, if that makes any sense. his son compiled the famed explorer's journals into a book but it can get very, very repetitive and the journal entries were not written with storytelling in mind, rather fact recording. so this version (unlike the more recent The Los......more

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