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　　A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Washington

Post, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and

Denver Post Bestseller

In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured

into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He

never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find

evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.”

In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann

interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and

his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest

exploration mystery of the twentieth century.

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　　DAVID GRANN is a longtime staff writer at

The New Yorker. He has written about everything from New

York City’s antiquated water tunnels to the Aryan Brotherhood

prison gang, from the hunt for the giant squid to the mysterious

death of the world’s greatest Sherlock Holmes expert. His stories

have appeared in several Best American writing anthologies,

and he has written for The New York Times Magazine,

The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street

Journal, and The New Republic. A collection of his

stories, The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder,

Madness, and Obsession, will be published in spring 2010.

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　　“Suspenseful. . . . Rollicking. . . . Reads with all the pace

and excitement of a movie thriller. . . . 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.”

　　—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times

　　“Breathtaking. . . . Grann brings Fawcett’s remarkable story to a

beautifully written, perfectly paced fruition. . . . Any writer who

can breathe life into letters written by scientists in the early

1900s deserves more than a hat tip.”

　　—The Los Angeles Times

　　“Brilliant. . . . Impressively researched and skillfully crafted.

. . . Grann makes abundantly clear in this fascinating, epic story

of exploration and obsession, [that] the lethal attraction of the

Amazon mystery remains strong.”

　　—The Boston Globe

　　“A smart biographical page-turner.”

　　—USA Today

　　“Grann escapes death and tracks down Z, giving the reader the

kind of Indiana Jones kicks best experienced vicariously.”

　　—Details

　　“A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of

adventure.”

　　—John Grisham

　　“Thoroughly researched, vividly told. . . . Grann recounts

Fawcett’s expeditions with all the pace of a white-knuckle

adventure story. . . . A thrill ride from start to finish.”

　　—The Washington Post

　　“The story of Z goes to the heart of the central questions of our

age. In the battle between man and a hostile environment, who wins?

A fascinating and brilliant book.”

　　—Malcolm Gladwell

　　“A spellbinding tale that produces fresh surprises around each

turn. . . . An amazing story.”

　　—Dallas Morning News

　　“A fascinating yarn that touches on science, history, and some

truly obsessive personalities.”

　　—Entertainment Weekly

　　“There is something about Fawcett’s spirit and self-assurance

that captivates. . . . To read The Lost City of Z is to feel

grateful that Grann himself bothered to set out for the Amazon in

search of the bones of an explorer whose body was long ago

reclaimed by the jungle.”

　　—Christian Science Monitor

　　“In a hyperconnected and exhaustively charted world, here is a

revelation about wildness and the mad desire to plunge into it. . .

. Unfathomably riveting. . . . Grann wildly delivers the

goods.”

　　—GQ

　　“A blockbuster tale of adventure.”

　　—New York Observer

　　“Marvelous. . . . [Grann] combines a colorful narrative of

Fawcett’s early life, military career, jungle treks, theories and

even conversations with a biography of an extraordinary man and an

overview of the last great and highly competitive age of

exploration.”

　　—Bloomberg News

　　“A blood-stirring reading experience.”

　　—The Denver Post

　　“A deeply satisfying revelation. . . . What could be

better—obsession, mystery, deadly insects, shrunken heads,

suppurating wounds, hostile tribesmen—all for us to savor in our

homes, safely before the fire.”

　　—Erik Larson

　　“What makes Mr. Grann’s telling of the story so captivating is

that he decides not simply to go off in search of yet more relics

of our absent hero—but to go off himself in search of the city that

Fawcett was looking for so heroically when he suddenly went

AWOL.”

　　—Simon Winchester, The Wall Street Journal

　　“Fast-paced adventure. . . . Grann delights us with the lure of

obsession under a canopy of trees.”

　　—Cleveland Plain Dealer

　　“Absorbing and fair-minded. . . . In restoring a life that

history has swallowed from general view, and vindicating a crackpot

theory, Mr. Grann has also exposed the toll that explorers often

took on those who loved or depended on them.”

　　—Richard B. Woodward, The New York Times

　　“An engrossing book, whose protagonist could outmarch Lara Croft

and out-think Indiana Jones. . . . It’s almost enough to make you

reach for a backpack.”

　　—The Daily Telegraph (London)

　　“A riveting adventure-mystery in the tradition of Conan Doyle’s

The Lost World, said to be inspired by Fawcett.”

　　—The Toronto Star

　　“Perfect for armchair travelers and readers with fond childhood

memories of books recounting tales of adventure in the dark wild. .

. . What [Grann] found should help change how we think about the

Amazon. . . . Read it, shiver with delight and thank your lucky

stars you’re never going to get as close to a candirú as Fawcett

and Grann did. (Look it up on Wikipedia, if you dare.)” —Richmond

Times-Dispatch

　　“Thrilling. . . . What a story. . . . The beauty is that as

incredible as it is, it’s true.”

　　—Daily News

　　“Outstanding. . . . A powerful narrative, stiff lipped and

Victorian at the center, trippy at the edges, as if one of those

stern men of Conrad had found himself trapped in a novel by García

Márquez.”

　　—Rich Cohen, The New York Times Book Review

　　“Did Grann find the lost city? . . . It’s worth reading every

page of this marvelous book to find out.”

　　—Houston Chronicle

　　“Grann is no hard-as-nails explorer, and his self-deprecating

personal narrative . . . serves as a comic counterpoint to the

superhuman exploits of Fawcett. Grann may not be able to hack the

wilderness very well, but as a storyteller he’s first-rate.”

—Outside

　　“Grann has an extraordinary sense of pacing, and his scenes of

forest adventure are dispatched in passages of swift, arresting

simplicity. . . . A splendid, suspenseful book.”

　　—Bookforum

　　“With this riveting work, David Grann emerges on our national

landscape as a major new talent. His superb writing style, his

skills as a reporter, his masterful use of historical and

scientific documents, and his stunning storytelling ability are on

full display here, producing an endlessly absorbing tale about a

magical subject that captivates from start to finish. This is a

terrific book.”

　　—Doris Kearns Goodwin

　　“A thrilling yarn. . . . What [Grann] finds is what makes The

Lost City of Z so gratifying, and in the end he, and we along with

him, find ourselves stunned by what Percy Fawcett

discovered.”

　　—The Oregonian

　　“Grann paints a vivid picture of the final days of trail-blazing,

Earth-bound grand exploration, before airplanes and radios began

stripping the mystery from the unknown parts of the world.”

　　—The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)

　　“Meticulously researched and spellbinding. . . . Reads like a

cross between an Indiana Jones adventure and a Gabriel Garcia

Marquez novel. . . . Gripping.”

　　—The Ottawa Citizen

　　“Irresistible. . . . At once a biography of Fawcett, a history of

the era of exploration, a science book on the nature and

ethnography of the Amazon and a thrilling armchair adventure. . . .

[It] has everything to fire the imagination: Romance, nostalgia,

bravery, monomania, hardship, adventure, science, tragedy,

mystery.”

　　—South Florida Sun Sentinel

　　“The Lost City of Z is meticulously researched, riveting and

horrifying, guided by a core mystery that seems unimaginable and an

author driven into the depths of the jungle by his daring to

imagine it.”

　　—Philadelphia City Paper

　　“Absorbing. . . . A wonderful story of a lost age of heroic

exploration.”

　　—The Sunday Times (London)

　　“Tantalizing. . . . Grann gives us a glimpse of the vanished age

of exploration [as well as] a suspenseful, often very funny account

of his own trek as a complete amateur into the ‘green hell’ of the

Amazon. . . . Immensely entertaining.”

　　—The Gazette (Montreal)

　　“Thankfully, for those of us who secretly live and breath for the

swashbuckling adventure tale, every now and then a book comes along

that renews our faith in the epic quest narrative, its ability to

inform and enlighten even as it feeds our most primal need for

dramatic amusement. [The Lost City of Z] succeeds tremendously in

these pursuits.”

　　—The Globe and Mail (Canada)

书籍介绍

A New York Times , USA Today , Wall Street Journal , Washington Post , Boston Globe , San Francisco Chronicle , Los Angeles Times , and Denver Post Bestseller

In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.