The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon

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Hordes of mosquitoes, poison-arrow attacks, bizarre and fatal diseases, spies in starched collars, hidden outposts of Atlantis — what’s not to like? But also because there are people who feel an itch so intense that they have to go somewhere as far away from people as possible. El libro está muy bien ya que cuenta los viajes a la selva y los terribles padecimientos que sufrieron los expedicionarios según se cuenta en los diarios de los protagonistas, pero no es una historia novelada.

La narración va saltando entre estos viajes, unas pocas lecciones de historia desde los conquistadores y el presente del autor y su viaje a la zona. Fawcett también estaba obsesionado con esta búsqueda, en este caso, la ciudad de Z, al escuchar a los indios rumores sobre una antigua civilización. Then there’s the piranha, the electric eels, the anacondas, the coral snakes or the poisonous toads that are so toxic that one of them could kill a hundred people. There was one description that made me shiver: ”Espundia, an illness with even more frightening symptoms.

Fearless and determined, he made a series of trips, beginning in 1906, deep into the South American interior to map out uncharted territory for the Royal Geographical Society.

Y es que, es imposible contar todos los viajes, idas y venidas y padecimientos que sufrió el explorador en su obsesión por encontrar su destino. Captivating the imagination of millions round the globe, Fawcett embarked with his 21-year-old son, determined to prove that this ancient civilisation--which he dubbed Z--existed. The Lost City of Z is at once a biography, a detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing that combines Bruce Chatwinesque powers of observation with a Waugh-like sense of the absurd. and we’re back with the author in first person again as he documents what will ultimately prove to be only his own pointless, journalistic narcissism.But it is also a source of distortion, as it ignores or inflates much available material on Fawcett. I cannot recommend this book highly enough, and I would like to thank Doubleday for sending me this book and also those on Shelf Awareness for offering it as an ARC.