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    Lost Trails, Lost Cities

    By Colonel P. H. Fawcett

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    A chronicle of adventure and discovery in the green, deadly world of the jungle.

    This extraordinary first-hand account of seven explorations into the heart of the lost world of the Amazon Basin and its mountain ramparts has been made available for publication after more than a quarter of a century’s silence. On his eighth and final expedition, Colonel P. H. Fawcett vanished into the jungle wilderness; to this day his fate is unknown. Before he began his last trip he set down the story of the expeditions he had completed, and his son, Brian Fawcett, here presents it together with a summary of the attempts to solve the mystery of his father’s disappearance. Colonel Fawcett was an explorer in the great tradition. He believed that somewhere in the unmapped heart of South America were the ruins of cities whose discovery would confirm many Indian legends that had come down from the days of the conquistadores. Trained in the exacting techniques of exploration-survey, he accepted an opportunity to determine the boundary line between Bolivia and Peru, and in 1906 set out on the first of his expeditions. It and the ones that followed over the next fifteen years have become classics of exploration; Colonel Fawcett combined the discipline of a scientist-engineer with the imaginative daring of a man not afraid to gamble his life on a bold conjecture.

    In 1921 he set down the narrative of his first seven trips. When he failed to return from the eighth, publication was delayed until it became certain that he would never be able to complete his manuscript. But the reader will find here a wholly engrossing story of a great search written with modesty and great skill, the work of a brave and mature man who possessed both a purpose and a dream. The result is a book which will remain a classic in its field.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHauraki Publishing
    Release dateAug 9, 2016
    ISBN9781787200784
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    Colonel P. H. Fawcett

    Lt. Colonel Percival Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 - ca. 1925) was a British artillery officer, archaeologist and South American explorer. Along with his eldest son Jack, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find “Z”—his name for an ancient lost city, which he and others believed to be El Dorado, in the uncharted jungles of Brazil.

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    • 3/5
      A neat companion to "The Lost City of Z", but I think it might have been hard to follow if I hadn't read that one first.