4.0

The illustrations keep some humor laced throughout the book, which I found to be particularly nice because the text stayed pretty dry. I read this aloud to my seven-year-old, and he stayed interested throughout, but I found the story dragged in a few spots. Despite that, however, I love that there is
Spoiler no solution to this mystery. What *did* happen to Percy Fawcett? It's fascinating to think about and I really like that Pizzoli tackled this topic in spite of their being no neat ending. One of the things that has always kept me chasing historical stories is their ongoing nature, but this one is more extreme than most


A nice readaloud for a small group or one-on-one. Deals with exploration, discover, adventuring. The book doesn't particularly address the nature of exploration through areas where people were already living, other than to describe "violent native attacks."