Kong: Skull Island was a success, there are new Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider movies in the works, and then there's The Lost City of Z, which is based on the book of the same name. But what ...

This week, the SciFri Book Club kicks off our first book for 2015: David Grann’s non-fiction tale of Amazonian exploration, The Lost City of Z. For Book Club newbies, the concept is simple: Read the ...

David Grann, author of The Lost City of Z, had the opportunity to examine Fawcett’s private journals and correspondences while preparing his book. In one entry, he noted that Fawcett believed ...

Fawcett’s exploits were described by David Grann in this magazine in 2005 and subsequently in his book “The Lost City of Z” (2009). Gray has borrowed the title, and he dramatizes many of the ...

His findings would go on to become a bestselling book and form the basis for new film “The Lost City of Z,” but he didn’t know any of this at the time. In that moment all he knew was swamp ...

Such gross simplifications of faraway lands, which feature heavily in certain characters’ psychology during The Lost City of Z, is the stuff adventure yarns and imperial conquest are built on.

He named the city Z ... 1953 book, give a sense of the awe he experienced. Although the mystery of his last days may never be fully resolved, Fawcett’s quest for a lost city may be at an ...