Books of The Times - In ‘The Lost City of Z,’ David Grann Recounts Percy Fawcett’s Explorations - Review - NYTimes.com

Books of The Times - In ‘The Lost City of Z,’ David Grann Recounts Percy Fawcett’s Explorations - Review - NYTimes.com: "“The Lost City of Z” is at once a biography, a detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing that combines Bruce Chatwinesque powers of observation with a Waugh-like sense of the absurd. Mr. Grann treats us to a harrowing reconstruction of Fawcett’s forays into the Amazonian jungle, as well as an evocative rendering of the vanished age of exploration, which witnessed feats like Livingstone’s finding of Victoria Falls, the Amundsen and Scott expeditions to the South Pole and Hiram Bingham’s discovery of the lost city of Machu Picchu."

This is on my list at the library.