The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

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Fearless and determined, he made a series of trips, beginning in 1906, deep into the South American interior to map out uncharted territory for the Royal Geographical Society. Over the decades after their disappearance, several teams and even individuals ventured into the dense jungle to find the famed explorer. Grann currently lives in New York with his wife Kyra Darnton, a television producer, and their two children.

This is the third Grann book I've read this year — I also recommend Killers of the Flower Moon and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes — and I've become such a fan of Grann's work that I'll happily read his future books. David Grann is an American journalist and author, best known for his narrative non-fiction books Killers of the Flower Moon and The Wager. He has geared up, abandoned his family and climbed into the vortex himself—stung by his subject’s obsession. and we’re back with the author in first person again as he documents what will ultimately prove to be only his own pointless, journalistic narcissism.Sometimes, you got to care more for your loved ones than the general welfare, even if you’re accused of avarice.

In 1925, amid a great flurry of media attention, he, his young son, Jack, and Jack's schoolfriend, Raleigh Rimell, set off to locate Z. I highly recommend this book for fans of "Indiana Jones," early 20th century history stories, and just those tired of sitting on their lounger at home and wondering whether or not they should drop everything and run off into the jungle. You can find a bit of similarity to the famous biography of Christopher McCandless, and that’s where the tale shines, too.

The Kalapalo had apparently preserved an oral history about Fawcett's small party of himself, his son Jack, and Jack's friend Raleigh Rimell, who were among the first Europeans the tribe had ever seen. What could be better--obsession, mystery, deadly insects, shrunken heads, suppurating wounds, hostile tribesmen--all for us to savor in our homes, safely before the fire. B. Cooper as tales unravel of the many minds and/or lives lost in attempts to solve the mystery of a missing man. The Lost City of Z was optioned by Brad Pitt’s Plan B production company and Paramount Pictures in 2010.