Percy Fawcett, Who Walked Into the Amazon in 1925 Looking for the Lost City of Z and Never Came Out
Colonel Percy Fawcett — surveyor, veteran of seven Amazon expeditions, convinced the jungle hid the ruins of a lost civilisation he called 'Z' — vanished with his son and one companion in Brazil's Mato Grosso in 1925. Scores of would-be rescuers died or disappeared searching. Modern archaeology's discovery of vast pre-Columbian earthworks in the Amazon has, in its way, vindicated the obsession that killed him.
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