Brazil That Never Was

A famed British neurologist embarks on an expedition in Brazil to follow the trail of Percy Fawcett, an occult-obsessed explorer who went missing in the Amazon rainforest and was the subject of the 2016 film The Lost City of Z.

About the author

A.J. Lees is a professor of neurology at the National Hospital, London. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the American Academy of Neurology Lifetime Achievement Award, the Association of British Neurologists' Medal, the Dingebauer Prize for outstanding research, and the Gowers Medal. He is one of the three most highly cited Parkinson's disease researchers in the world. He is the author of several books, including the Notting Hill Editions titles Mentored by a Madman and Brazil That Never Was.

Summary

Eminent neurologist A.J. Lees travels in the footsteps of his childhood hero, the Victorian explorer Colonel Fawcett, who disappeared in 1925 whilst searching for a lost city in the Amazon. Part travelogue, part memoir, Lees paints a portrait of an elusive Brazil, and a flawed explorer whose doomed mission ruined lives.

Product details

• Authors: A. J. Lees, A.J. Lees, Lees A.J.
• Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2020
• EAN: 9781912559213
• ISBN: 978-1-912559-21-3
• No. of pages: 152
• Dimensions: 120 mm x 190 mm x 13 mm
• Weight: 192 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; Travel, Brazil, Expeditions, Memoirs, HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries, TRAVEL / South America / Brazil, Expeditions: popular accounts, Travel writing, Literary essays, History of the Americas, True stories of discovery, History of other geographical groupings and regions, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs