The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon - Softcover

Few things are better than experiencing a horrendous adventure from the comfort of your own armchair. Hordes of mosquitoes, poison-arrow attacks, bizarre and fatal diseases, spies in starched collars, hidden outposts of Atlantis- what's not to like? The lost city of Z is like a wonderful nineteenth-century tale of exotic danger, except that David Grann's book is also a sensitively written biographical detective story. a vest-pocket history of exploration, and a guide to the new archaeological research that is exploding our preconceptions of the Amazon and its peoples.