The Lost City of Z - David Grann
Published by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd: London, 2017 (2009). I've been wanting to read this book for quite some time, ever since I heard about the movie being made back in 2016. It tells the true story of explorer Percy Fawcett, who believed that the Amazon jungle contained the ruins of a massive city, which he nicknamed Z. In 1925 Fawcett, along with his son Jack and Jack's friend Raleigh, entered the jungle to discover the city and never returned. The book tells us all of this in the first few pages, but then goes on to fill us in on Fawcett's life, along with telling the "present day" journey of author David Grann to find out about Fawcett. Grann eventually goes to the Amazon himself, although not going as deep into the Amazon as his subject. For a book that has no tidy resolution, and lets us know this from the word go (we're not going to discover for sure what happened to Fawcett when no-one else has managed to do so), The Lost City of Z is grip...