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A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the... read more

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Memorable Quotes

  • “"Those whom the Gods intend to destroy they first make mad!"”
    Percy Harrison Fawcett

First Sentence

On a cold January day in 1925, a tall, distinguished gentleman hurried across the docks in Hoboken, New Jersey, toward the SS Vauban, a five-hundred-and-eleven-foot ocean liner bound for Rio de Janeiro.

Authors & Contributors

  1. David Grann (Author)
 

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