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Summary: After stumbling upon a hidden trove of diaries, New Yorker writer David Grann set out to solve "the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century": what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925 Fawcett ventured into the Amazon to find an ancient civilization. For centuries Europeans believed the world's largest jungle concealed the glittering El Dorado. Thousands had died...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: 918.1 GraCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FAWCETT, PERCY HARRISON GRAWallace, Scott.
Summary: Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding from the outside world, they are the unconquered, the last survivors of an ancient culture that predates the arrival of Columbus. Journalist Scott Wallace chronicles an expedition into the Amazon's uncharted depths, discovering the rainforest's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2011