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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.”
In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann
interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and
his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest
exploration mystery of the twentieth century.
關於作者:
DAVID GRANN is a longtime staff writer at
The New Yorker. He has written about everything from New
York City’s antiquated water tunnels to the Aryan Brotherhood
prison gang, from the hunt for the giant squid to the mysterious
death of the world’s greatest Sherlock Holmes expert. His stories
have appeared in several Best American writing anthologies,
and he has written for The New York Times Magazine,
The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street
Journal, and The New Republic. A collection of his
stories, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder,
Madness, and Obsession, will be published in spring 2010.