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The Lost City of Z

a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
Apr 21, 2017BlueHippo rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
Thoroughly enjoyed this book. The author is able to transition from the hsistrical story of Fawcett to his own story of investigation smoothly and clearly for the reader. Well-defined historical characters and vivid descriptions of situations encountered on the treks. I do find it amusing that (as ismany times the case), the Fawcet's were supposedly reduced to basically poverty (or so it is claimed) and yet they had money to move around the world-literally! From England to some tropical island to California and back to England. Hummmmmmmmm.......! My only issue with the actual writing of the book is that the author is, like so many of his New Yorker ilk, a little self-impressed and wants to be sure you know how smart he is so he uses a lot of "big" (read "archaic") words whensimpler words or phrases would have sufficed and then my reading would not have been peppered with interruptions to look up the definition of a word.