In this riveting, real-life adventure tale, New Yorker writer Grann deftly intercuts between a biography of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett and his own quest to find out what happened to the great explorer, who disappeared in the Brazilian Amazon in 1925. He gets farther than anyone before in solving the mystery of the man -- and a lost civilization in the Amazon, thanks to his own dogged determination (and considerable research skills), never-before-examined Fawcett family papers, and the work of archaeologists like Anna Roosevelt and Michael J. Heckenberger. There may not have been an El Dorado but Fawcett, as it turns out, was right that great urban centers once flourished in the Amazon.  (AMZ117, $15.95)

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Brazilian Adventure
Peter Fleming
EXPLORATION •  1999 • PAPER  • 384 PAGES
A classic and very entertaining account of a 3,000-mile quest through the Amazon in search of a missing English colonel, first published in 1933. (AMZ55, $16.95)