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Brazilian Adventure
by Peter Fleming
- EXPLORATION
- 1999
- PAPER
- 384 PAGES
A journalist and adventurer, Peter Fleming sets off for Brazil on a 3,000-mile quest through the Amazon in a celebrated search for a missing English colonel in this classic and very entertaining account, first published in 1933. Only a British explorer, albeit unintentionally, could be as ill-prepared and deadpan about such an adventure. He never did find Fawcett.
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by David Grann
- BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
- 2010
- PAPER
- 368 PAGES
- NEW
In this riveting, real-life adventure, New Yorker writer and middle-aged Brooklynite Grann sets out into the wild to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century" -- the fate of British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett, who disappeared in the Amazon in 1925. (AMZ117, $15.95)
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