Lost City of Z - A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon
Pocketbok. Simon & Schuster UK. 2017. 337 sidor.
Mycket gott skick. A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9781471164910
- Titel
- Lost City of Z FTI
- Författare
- Grann, David
- Förlag
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Utgivningsår
- 2017
- Omfång
- 337 sidor
- Bandtyp
- Mått
- 128 x 198 mm Ryggbredd 24 mm
- Vikt
- 275 g
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, the inspiration behind Conan Doyle's novel The Lost World, was among the last of a legendary breed of British explorers. For years he explored the Amazon and came to believe that its jungle concealed a large, complex civilization, like El Dorado. Obsessed with its discovery, he christened it the City of Z. In 1925, Fawcett headed into the wilderness with his son Jack, vowing to make history. They vanished without a trace. For the next eighty years, hordes of explorers plunged into the jungle, trying to find evidence of Fawcett's party or Z. Some died from disease and starvation; others simply disappeared. In this spellbinding true tale of lethal obsession, David Grann retraces the footsteps of Fawcett and his followers as he unravels one of the greatest mysteries of exploration.
