Exploration Fawcett

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.

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.

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.

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.