![]() Grann cleverly knits together Fawcett's story with his own attempts to find Z, and sets both narratives against the socio-geographical debate over whether the Amazon is and always was a "counterfeit paradise", ill-suited to large human populations.Īlthough sympathetic to Amazonian natives, Fawcett was a product of an imperialist culture and he believed his elusive Z was created by a lost tribe of Europeans. The group disappeared and were never heard from again. In 1925, amid a great flurry of media attention, he, his young son, Jack, and Jack's schoolfriend, Raleigh Rimell, set off to locate Z. But each excursion he made led him to believe that a lost city he codenamed Z existed somewhere farther into the jungle. ![]() He had read the tales of early Conquistadors, the El Dorado myths that had drawn men to their deaths in doomed pursuit of hidden riches. Fawcett was convinced that the Amazon had once supported a sophisticated civilisation. ![]()
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