The Lost City of Z

Name: The Lost City of Z
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by David Grann · first published 2009

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon is a nonfiction book by American author David Grann. Published in 2009, the book recounts the activities of the British explorer Percy Fawcett who, in 1925, disappeared with his son in the Amazon rainforest while looking for the ancient "Lost City of Z". In the book, Grann recounts his own journey into the Amazon, by which he discovered new evidence about how Fawcett may have died. The Lost City of Z was the basis of a 2016 feature film of the same name.

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