01891cam a2200325 4500
1163532719
TxAuBib
20090316120000.0
080416s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u
2008017432
9780385513531
hc
$27.50
0385513534
hc
$27.50
TxAuBib
Grann, David.
The lost city of Z :
a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon /
by David Grann.
1st ed.
New York :
Doubleday,
2009.
xi, 339 p., [16] p. of plates :
ill. ;
25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
We shall return -- The vanishing -- The search begins -- Buried treasure -- Blank spots on the map -- The disciple -- Freeze-dried ice cream and adrenaline socks -- Into the Amazon -- The secret papers -- The green hell -- Dead Horse Camp -- In the handsof the gods -- Ransom -- The case for Z -- El Dorado -- The locked box -- The whole world is mad -- A scientific obsession -- An unexpected clue -- Have no fear -- The last eyewitness -- Dead or alive -- The colonel's bones -- The other world -- Z.
Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.
20090316.
Fawcett, Percy Harrison
1867-1925
Travel
Amazon River Region.
Fawcett, Percy Harrison
1867-1925
Death and burial.
Grann, David
Travel
Amazon River Region.
El Dorado.
Explorers
Amazon River Region.
Amazon River Region
Description and travel.
TXKIP