Exploration Fawcett: Journey to the Lost City of Z

356 Pages·2010·52.472 MB·English

by  Percy Harrison Fawcett, Brian Fawcett

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EXPLORATION FAWCETT
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Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was born in 1867 in Devon,
England. At the age ofnineteen*lie was given a commission in the
Royal Artillery. He served'in Ceylon for several years where he
met and married his wife. Later he performed secret service work
in North Africa. Fawcett found himselfbored with Army life and
learned the art ofsurveying, hoping to land a more interesting job.
Thenin 1906 came the offerto join the RoyalGeographical Society:
his ticket to adventure.
It was summer 1925 when Colonel Percy Fawcett passed a final
message to his wife. "You need have no fear of any failure," he
wrote before setting off deeper into the Mato Grosso region of
the Amazon jungle on his quest to discover a fabled lost city of
gold. He never found it. Instead, he vanished in baffling cir-
cumstances, leaving a mystery that has become one of the most
enduring ofthe 20th century.
EXPLORATION
FAWCETT
Lt. Col. P.H. Fawcett
Arranged from his manuscripts,
letters, log-books, and records by
BRIAN FAWCETT
With line drawings by
BRIAN FAWCETT
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The lot of the one left behind is ever the
—
harder. Because of that because she
as my partner in everything shared
with me the burden of the work
—
recorded in these pages this
book is dedicated to my wife
"CHEEKY"
Percy Harrison Fawcett.
Stoke Canon,
Devon.
1924.