The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion picture The Lost City of Z.
Then in 1906 came the offer from the Society: His ticket to adventure..
Fawcett found himself bored with Army life and learned the art of surveying, hoping to land a more interesting job.
Later he performed secret service work in North Africa.
He served in Ceylon for several years where he met and married his wife.
At the age of nineteen he was given a commission in the Royal Artillery.
About the Author: Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was born in 1867 in Devon, England. .\' This is the thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett\'s ten years of travels in deadly jungles and forests in search of a secret city. .
His younger son, Brian Fawcett, has compiled this book from letters and records left by his father, whose last written words to his wife were: \'You need have no fear of any failure .
In 1925, Fawcett was convinced that he had discovered the location of a lost city; he had set out with two companions, one of whom was his eldest son, to destination \'Z\', never to be heard of again.
The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries.
The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion picture The Lost City of Z
