The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

For fans of non-fiction adventure travel, this is an interesting and worthwhile read. It provides an insightful lens into the world of Victorian era explorers, and paints the picture of a man in Percy Fawcett who's attitude toward and appreciation of natives was ahead of his time. For those who are new to the genre, this can be a bit of a grind, and you may want to start elsewhere.

The Lost City of Z is a wonderful book written to document the search for two treasures, the mythical Lost City of Z (a large civilization in the middle of the Amazon), and Col Percy Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon searching for Z. Once I began reading The Lost City of Z I couldn't put the book down. It alternated between background information on both the List City of Z and Col Fawcett. I enjoyed the book tremendously until I reached the final chapter. Here the tone of the book changes and the ending was very anticlimactic. I recommend this book to anyone with a sense of adventure and history. But, the ending is disappointing.

A wonderful and compelling story. I've been interested in anthropology and archaeology since I was a kid, and this is one of the big questions about the history of the early america's. Were there any large settlements in the Amazon or was Carvajal's description of Orellana's trip down the Amazon a tall tale or a true accounting? Ancient civilizations fascinate me. The dual narrative of the life of Fawcett and the search for Fawcett was well told and well paced. The eBook was formatted well, with a few punctuation errors (mostly hyphenated words that didn't need to be).