Brian Fawcett

Percy Harrison Fawcett

This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett's ten years of travels in forests and death-filled rivers in search of a secret city was compiled from manuscripts, letters and logbooks by his son. ' The disappearance of Colonel Fawcett in the Matto Grosso remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of today. In 1925 Fawcett was convinced that he had discovered the location of a lost city; he had set out with two companions, one of whom was his eldest son, to destination 'Z', never to be heard of again. His younger son, Brian Fawcett, has compiled this book from letters and records left by his father whose last written words to his wife were: 'You need have no fear of any failure...' Fawcett had tried to find lost cities for ten years: ' That the cities exist I know'. 'a book of great power....should be read by everyone' Daily Telegraph

Exploration Fawcett

Les huit expéditions de Percy Harrison Fawcett au coeur de l'Amazonie constituent l'une des plus extraordinaires aventures du XXe siècle. Colonel de la British Army, prototype de l'explorateur anglais à la fois visionnaire et flegmatique, Facwett s'était juré - sur la foi d'anciennes chroniques portugaises et d'indications d'un voyant - de retrouver les ruines d'une ancienne cité de l'Atlantide enfouie dans les ténèbres de la jungle brésilienne. Il disparut au cours de sa huitième expédition, dans des circonstances qui demeurent à ce jour mystérieuses. Les hypothèses les plus folles furent émises. Finit-il par découvrir la fabuleuse cité mégalithique ? Mourut-il, frappé d'amnésie, errant à travers la forêt vierge ? De nombreux explorateurs se lancèrent à sa recherche et certains, à leur tour, ne revinrent jamais. Ouvrage posthume publié en 1953 par le fils de l'explorateur, Brian Fawcett, à partir de ses journaux et notes, Le Continent perdu contient par ailleurs une passionnante (et parfois cocasse) description de la vie dans les postes de récolte de caoutchouc de la forêt amazonienne au début du siècle.

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Le continent perdu

The inspiration for the major motion picture "The Lost City of Z," mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett spent 10 years wandering the forests and death-filled rivers of Brazil in search of a fabled lost city. Finally, convinced that he had discovered the location, he set out for the last time toward destination “Z” in 1925, never to be heard from again.This thrilling and mysterious account of Fawcett’s ten years of travels in deadly jungles and forests in search of a secret city was compiled by his younger son, Fawcett's companion on his journeys, from manuscripts, letters, and logbooks. An international sensation when it was first published in 1953, Exploration Fawcett was praised by the likes of Graham Greene and Harold Nicolson, and found its way to Ernest Hemingway's bookshelf. Reckless and inspired, full of fortitude and doom, this is a book to rival Heart of Darkness, except that the harrowing accounts described in its pages are completely true. To this day, Colonel Fawcett's disappearance remains a great mystery.

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