The Lost City of Z

Authors: David Grann

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I read this to get ready for the movie to come out later this year. It was fantastic and I can assuredly say that I never ever want to go traipsing through the Amazon. Even with my strong stomach, talk of maggots growing and rolling around the skin was almost too much to keep my lunch in me. Having said that, though, the rest of the story is fantastic. It reads rather quick and has very few of the dry, non-fiction parts that tend to bore me. All in all, I would recommend this book to anybody loo

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king to get away from the urban world as well as anyone who thinks the Amazon is some kind of jungle paradise.
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I learned a lot from this book, much more than I'd thought, which I realized when I was telling other people about the book. While some of the information and some of the passages were fascinating, I found my attention wandering during other parts. I understand that David Grann was trying to tell *his* search for Col. Percy Fawcett's biography, and ultimately the Lost City of Z, but the transitions sometimes felt forced, and I'd find myself wondering why he was information disgorging on tangential topics. The other thing that kept me from enjoying this book more was because I found myself more interested in the Amazonian tribes than caught up in the fascination for the explorers and explorer fever of the early to mid-1900s.

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