David Grann Message Board 1/1/2012
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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
The Lost City details one journalists fascination and research about the 1925 disappearance of the famed explorer Percy Fawcett in the Amazon Jungle. David Grann was working on a story about the mysterious death of the last Sherlock Holmes expert when he came across an interesting tidbit about the inspiration behind Arthur Conan Doyle's “The Lost World”. The inspiration apparently had come from an early 20th century British explorer named Percy Fawcett ...
