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“You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

“It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray the “savage” as European rather than as some native in the jungle.”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

“But by 1925 Fawcett had filled his papers with reams of delirious writings about the end of the world and about a mystical Atlantean kingdom, which resembled the Garden of Eden. Z was transformed into “the cradle of all civilizations” and the center of one of Blavatsky’s “White Lodges,” where a group of higher spiritual beings helped to direct the fate of the universe.”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.”
― David Grann, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon