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David Grann: Lost City of Z
June 6, 2009
David Grann writer, The New Yorker

New Yorker writer David Grann talks about his adventure into the hazardous Amazon jungle to retrace the footsteps of the great Colonel Percy Fawcett, who ventured there in 1925 in search of the fabled ancient kingdom of El Dorado, which he dubbed "Z." Hoping to answer decades-long questions about Fawcett's fate, as well as the existence of this "Lost City," Grann's search for the truth lead to some remarkable discoveries.

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Image of The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Author: David Grann
Publisher: Doubleday (2009)
Binding: Hardcover, 352 pages
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