After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer Grann sets out to solve the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century: what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? The #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization.
In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett\'s quest for Z and his own journey into the Deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century..
Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called The Lost City of Z.
He never returned.
After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, acclaimed New Yorker writer Grann sets out to solve the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century: what happened to the British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest for the Lost City of Z? The #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Killers of the Flower Moon In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization