What We're Reading: Tracy

The Lost City of Z: a Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, by David Grann.

In 1925, famed British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett set out for the Amazon with his son, searching for a lost civilization that he was convinced existed deep in the jungle. He was never heard from again, which might not seem too surprising, except that Fawcett was the most accomplished Amazon explorer of his time, a nearly legendary figure with an almost mythic quality to his exploits. The mystery of his disappearance captivated the public for decades and led to many further expeditions, some of them fatal. In 2004, author David Grann set out on his own journey, determined to find out what happened to Fawcett and whether there was, in fact, a lost city of Z. Both Fawcett's and Grann's stories make for compelling reading: I was unable to put this book down until I finished.