![]() ![]() Some nearly died of starvation, while others retreated in the face of tribes that attacked with poisoned arrows. In the next seven decades, scores of explorers had tried and failed to retrace Fawcett’s path. When he vanished, Fawcett and his party had been trying to uncover a lost civilization hidden in the Amazon, which Fawcett had named, simply, the City of Z. The expedition expected to find little more than bones-yet even discovering those would have been a revelation. Finally, after months of waiting, a team of Brazilian adventurers and scientists headed into the jungle, determined to solve what has been described as “the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.” The group was searching for signs of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British explorer who, in 1925, had disappeared in the forest, along with his son and another companion. Rivers sank by thirty feet bogs became meadows islands turned into hills. ![]() Then the sun came out and scorched the region. Bridges were swept away, and, amid vast stretches of mud, small holes appeared where cobras and armadillos had buried themselves. In the summer of 1996, rains flooded the Amazon, rendering it virtually impenetrable. ![]()
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