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“You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of finished that”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
“Fawcett agreed that El Dorado, with its plethora of gold, was an “exaggerated romance,” but he was not ready to dismiss the chronicles altogether”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― 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.”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
“Life is wasted on the living.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“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.”
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
― The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
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