Brazilian Adventure: A Quest Into The Heart Of The Amazon

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This title presents new Foreword by Giles Foden In the summer of 1925 Colonel Fawcett
- soldier spy & legendary explorer
- embarked on a journey into the dark & uncharted heart of Brazil in search of the lost ' City of Z' He was never seen again Rumours abounded
- that Fawcett had been killed by Indians or wild animals or that he had lost his memory & become chief of a cannibal tribe
- & many became obsessed with discovering what had become of him In 1932 when " The Times" advertised for 'guns' to join an expedition to find Fawcett the lure was too great for a young Peter Fleming & he immediately signed up intending to send dazzling dispatches from the jungle The expedition set out from Sao Paulo & following tributaries of the Amazon headed to Fawcett's last-known position What followed was in Fleming's words 'a venture for which Rider Haggard might have written the plot & Conrad designed the scenery' As the expedition forged its way deeper into the Amazon disagreements fractured the group & the entire adventure ended in a chaotic race to be the first to report back home Though the fate of Colonel Fawcett remains a mystery Peter Fleming's wild escapade in the heart of Brazil has become one of the 20th century's best-loved travel classics