Thousands of explorers spent decades looking for Fawcett; upwards of 100 died during various rescue missions. 📖 The Non-Fiction Book
In 1925, Fawcett, his son Jack, and Jack’s friend Raleigh Rimmel vanished while searching for Z. No definitive trace of them was ever found.
The "City of Z" was the name given by British explorer to an advanced ancient civilization he believed existed in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil.
The Lost City of Z refers to both the real-life archaeological mystery of a hidden Amazonian civilization and the popular media documenting the search for it, specifically and James Gray's 2016 film . 🏛️ The Historical Mystery