Exploration Fawcett - Journey to the Lost City of Z

Informationen zum Autor Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was born in 1867 in Devon, England. At the age of nineteen he was given a commission in the Royal Artillery. He served in Ceylon for several years where he met and married his wife. Later he performed secret service work in North Africa. Fawcett found himself bored with Army life and learned the art of surveying, hoping to land a more interesting job. Then in 1906 came the offer from the Society: His ticket to adventure. Klappentext The life of Colonel Fawcett is now the subject of the major motion picture The Lost City of Z. The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries. In 1925, Fawcett was convinced that he had discovered the location of a lost city; he had set out with two companions, one of whom was his eldest son, to destination 'Z', never to be heard of again. His younger son, Brian Fawcett, has compiled this book from letters and records left by his father, whose last written words to his wife were: 'You need have no fear of any failure . . .' This is the thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett's ten years of travels in deadly jungles and forests in search of a secret city.A lost city called 'Z'; lethal jungles; death-filled rivers: the last trip of a legendary explorer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones. Zusammenfassung A lost city called 'Z'; lethal jungles; death-filled rivers: the last trip of a legendary explorer who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones.

Product details

• Authors: Col. Percy Fawcett, Percy Fawcett
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.02.2010
• EAN: 9780753827901
• ISBN: 978-0-7538-2790-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 234 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales; TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Brazil, TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Latin America / South America, TRAVEL / South America / Brazil, Expeditions: popular accounts, Geographical discovery & exploration, History of the Americas, Geographical discovery and exploration, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)