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The Lost City of Z: a legendary British explorer's deadly quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon by David Grann
3 reviews
clarabooksit's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
3.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Colonisation and Racism
Moderate: War, Violence, Death, Sexism, Injury/Injury detail, Animal death, Classism, Abandonment, Body horror, and Mental illness
Minor: Pandemic/Epidemic, Slavery, Ableism, Cannibalism, Suicidal thoughts, Gun violence, and Grief
cait's review against another edition
informative
mysterious
slow-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Death, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Abandonment, Addiction, Cannibalism, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Medical trauma, Murder, Racial slurs, War, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Classism, Colonisation, Death of parent, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, and Racism
oliviaclaire's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
medium-paced
4.5
The Lost City of Z is one of those non-fiction stories that follows a narrative structure and is told so well by the author that it reads like fiction. It took me a while to place where I'd last felt this way about a book and once I did it made perfect sense that David Grann is also the author of 'Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI'.
Z tells the story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett and his obsession with the ruins of ancient civilisations that he believed to be sequestered in the Amazon. A traditional gentleman explorer, Fawcett set off with his son Jack and Jack's best friend Raleigh in 1924 to find 'Z', a sort of mythic El Dorado deep in the heart of the jungle. None of the three were ever seen again.
Grann does an amazing job of telling the story of Fawcett's life and early explorations, building to his final trip. At the same time, Grann himself travels from the USA to the UK and on to Brazil in the present day to retrace Fawcett's steps and speak to his descendants about his life and to other explorers who have since tried to find evidence of what happened to the trio. What he finds is just as exciting as Fawcett's original story.
This was such an interesting read and I'm intrigued to try some of Grann's other books now that I've enjoyed two great stories in a row from his work.
Z tells the story of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett and his obsession with the ruins of ancient civilisations that he believed to be sequestered in the Amazon. A traditional gentleman explorer, Fawcett set off with his son Jack and Jack's best friend Raleigh in 1924 to find 'Z', a sort of mythic El Dorado deep in the heart of the jungle. None of the three were ever seen again.
Grann does an amazing job of telling the story of Fawcett's life and early explorations, building to his final trip. At the same time, Grann himself travels from the USA to the UK and on to Brazil in the present day to retrace Fawcett's steps and speak to his descendants about his life and to other explorers who have since tried to find evidence of what happened to the trio. What he finds is just as exciting as Fawcett's original story.
This was such an interesting read and I'm intrigued to try some of Grann's other books now that I've enjoyed two great stories in a row from his work.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Animal death, Colonisation, and Mental illness
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