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“Hail, Britain’s Indiana Jones of the Amazon”
date: Jan 07, 2010 - Ben Macintyre, Times London
Great piece in The Times on Fawcett and recent discoveries in the Amazon:
Recent archaeological research, using satellite imagery and radar, has uncovered convincing proof of large pre-Columbian settlements in the very places where Fawcett searched and vanished: not merely houses, but moats, roads, bridges, avenues and squares laid out with geometric precision.
The latest discovery, reported in the journal Antiquity, has found more than 200 earthworks in the upper Amazon basin, some built in the 13th century but others dating back two centuries before Christ.
Sadly, deforestation of the Amazon is partly responsible for the discoveries. Read the rest of the article here: “Hail, Britain’s Indiana Jones of the Amazon”
“The Lost City Of Z” Named One Of The Best Books Of 2009
date: Jan 01, 2010
The book was chosen as one of the best books of the year by many newspapers and magazines in the United States and around the world. The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani selected “The Lost City of Z” as one of the ten best books published in 2009; so did Entertainment Weekly and Publishers Weekly. It was also chosen as one of the best or most notable books of the year by the Sunday New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Providence Journal, Bloomberg, McClatchy Newspapers, Globe and Mail, Amazon, and Evening Standard. The Los Angeles Times and World Hum also selected it as one the best travel books of the year. Barnes and Noble chose it as its number one non-fiction book of 2009.
The Lost City of Z has been shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award
date: May 21, 2009 - The Guardian
The Lost City of Z is one of six finalists for England’s highest non-fiction award.
John Grisham Talks About The Lost City of Z ON C-SPAN
date: Mar 31, 2009 - C-SPAN
Listen to John Grisham talks about The Lost City of Z.
Interview on “Colbert Nation”
date: Mar 17, 2009 - Colbert Nation
The Colbert Report
date: Mar 17, 2009 - The Colbert Report
David Grann discusses The Lost City of Z on the Colbert Report.
NPR The World
date: Feb 28, 2009 - NPR The World
Marco Werman interviews David Grann about “The Lost City of Z.”
NPR The World
date: Feb 28, 2009 - NPR The World
Watch a slide show about “The Lost City of Z” and listen to David Grann tell the story behind each image.
NPR On Point
date: Feb 26, 2009 - NPR On Point
Fawcett never came out of the jungle. Decades later, The New Yorker’s David Grann dove in after him, to see what he could find. He came out with a tale of snakes, spies, poison arrows, murder — and new science lighting up an old heart of darkness. This hour, On Point: On the trail of the Lost City of Z
NPR Talk of the Nation
date: Feb 24, 2009 - NPR Talk of the Nation
It may be the greatest exploration mystery of the 20th century: Percy Fawcett set out to discover the golden city of El Dorado, and vanished. Auther and New Yorker staff writer David Grann tells the story of his doomed expedition in The Lost City of Z.