I don’t normally read adventure books or history books. I leave this to when I do research for things I write, and also then I read only what I think is relevant. Life’s short and there are way too many books, and the history genre in books is a shelve full of medium quality publications.
But The Lost City of Z was different. The book tells the story of Fawcette, an English explorer that disappeared 80 years ago in the Amazon together with his son. This famous Amazon explorer attracted many other people who became obsessed with his disappearance and went to the Amazon after him – only to never return themselves.
Writer David Grann only became obsessed after beginning to write about Fawcette, and this made me identify with Grann, as I too know the feeling of a writer obsessed with the subject of his writings.
David Grann writes well, and the structure of the book works very good in combining Fawcette’s expeditions and Grann’s own journey. There is everything you would expect to find in such a story: suspense, thrill, family sub-textual drama, and despair.
A great book that will take you for days.
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