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Exploration Fawcett

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Exploration Fawcett is a posthumously published 1953 book compiling the journals of British surveyor and geographer Percy Fawcett. Edited by his son Brian Fawcett, the volume details Percy's numerous expeditions into the Amazon basin, focusing heavily on his quest to find a lost ancient civilization he named the City of Z. The historical account covers his surveys of the Bolivian and Brazilian jungles, ending with his unexplained disappearance in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil in 1925.

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What was the lost city Percy Fawcett called "Z"?

Fawcett believed an advanced ancient city, which he called "Z," lay somewhere in Brazil's Mato Grosso region. He disappeared in 1925 while searching for it with his son Jack and Jack's friend Raleigh Rimell.

Who assembled Exploration Fawcett after Percy Fawcett disappeared?

Percy Fawcett's younger son, Brian Fawcett, edited his father's journals, letters, and field records into the book. It was published posthumously in 1953, nearly three decades after the final expedition.

Does Exploration Fawcett explain what happened on Fawcett's final expedition?

No definitive account of the expedition's end exists because Fawcett, Jack, and Raleigh Rimell never returned. The book provides the ideas and earlier journeys behind the search, while David Grann's The Lost City of Z later investigates competing theories about their disappearance.

How is Exploration Fawcett connected to The Lost City of Z?

Exploration Fawcett presents Percy Fawcett's story through material drawn from his own records. David Grann's The Lost City of Z, published in 2009, approaches the same mystery as a modern work of narrative history and was adapted into a film starring Charlie Hunnam.

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