# "The Lost City of Z" by David Grann

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**Created:** [March 18, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-city-of-z-by-david-grann/489827 "2009-03-18T01:48:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-city-of-z-by-david-grann/489827/1 "2009-03-18T01:48:45Z")

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Anyone reading this? It’s a new book about Percy Fawcett, the British explorer who disappeared into the Amazon, and was supposedly the inspiration for Indiana Jones. I’m only a few chapters in, but it’s fantastic so far, and apparently a pretty big book. Anyone else pick this up?

[Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/Lost-City-Deadly-Obsession-Amazon/dp/0385513534/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1237340792&sr=8-1) and [NY Times review](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/17/books/17kaku.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=David%20Grann&st=cse)

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**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-city-of-z-by-david-grann/489827/2 "2009-03-18T02:06:18Z")

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I have it on hold at the library - I think I’m number 21.

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**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-city-of-z-by-david-grann/489827/3 "2009-03-18T02:14:23Z")

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> [@Glory](#):
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> I have it on hold at the library - I think I’m number 21.

Yikes…hope you can get a copy before that! Even if not, it’s worth the wait.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-city-of-z-by-david-grann/489827/4 "2009-03-18T02:46:38Z")

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Just finished it on Kindle. Good book, very interesting, and quite horrifying.

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-lost-city-of-z-by-david-grann/489827/5 "2009-03-18T13:32:23Z")

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By the way, if you like this sort of exploration book, I’d recommend the following:

**White Nile** , by Alan Moorehead  
**Blue Nile** , by Alan Moorehead  
**Darkest Jungle: The True Story of The Darien Expedition** , by Todd Balf  
**Jungle: A Harrowing True Story of Survival** , by Yossi Ghinsberg