The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon / David Grann.
Title:
The lost city of Z : a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon / David Grann.
ISBN:
9781400078455
9780385513531
9780525434658
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Doubleday, [2009]
©2009
Physical Description:
xi, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 21 cm
General Note:
Maps on endpapers.
Contents:
We shall return -- The vanishing -- The search begins -- Buried treasure -- Blank spots on the map -- The disciple -- Freeze-dried ice cream and adrenaline socks -- Into the Amazon -- The secret papers -- The green hell -- Dead Horse Camp -- In the hands of the gods -- Ransom -- The case for Z -- El Dorado -- The locked box -- The whole world is mad -- A scientific obsession -- An unexpected clue -- Have no fear -- The last eyewitness -- Dead or alive -- The colonel's bones -- The other world -- Z.
Summary:
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called "The Lost City of Z."--Publisher description
Geographic Term:
OCLC Number:
ocn226038067
Availability:
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