Brazilian Adventure

Product Description

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 Fawcetts last-known position. What followed was in Flemings 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 Flemings wild escapade in the heart of Brazil has become one of the 20th centurys best-loved travel classics."