[Conan the Librarian]

This played an important part of the “Lost City of Z” theory of Percy Fawcett.

For a GREAT read, read “The Lost City of Z” by David Grann.

Also, read about Orellana, the Spanish Explorer who’s men built a boat and floated down the Amazon to the sea, and, then around to the Caribbean in Buddy Levy’s River of Darkness.

[ought-six]

“For a GREAT read, read “The Lost City of Z” by David Grann.”

I saw the movie a few years ago, and I liked that. I then went to my local library to get the book but it was not carried in the library’s circulation. I had intended to see if my library could find a copy through Inter-Library Loan, but other things came up and I never did.

[GOPJ]

Though the sites don’t have the much larger monumental centers found in Bolivia, they were connected by a system of roads, bridges and canals, all situated in a large engineered landscape of fields, fish farms and other features. Intriguingly, this low-density, urban culture—which was more like a cluster of suburban communities without an urban center—thrived in the same region where Percey Fawcett vanished in search of his Lost City of Z.

FYI