DAVID GRANN is a longtime staff writer at The New Yorker. He has written about everything from New York City's antiquated water tunnels to the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, from the hunt for the giant squid to the mysterious death of the world's greatest Sherlock Holmes expert. His stories have appeared in several Best Americanwriting anthologies, and he has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic.
Praise for David Grann's The Lost City of Z "Suspenseful. . . .
Rollicking. . . . Reads with all the pace and excitement of a movie
thriller. . . . The Lost City of Z is at once a biography, a
detective story and a wonderfully vivid piece of travel writing
that combines Bruce Chatwinesque powers of observation with a
Waugh-like sense of the absurd. Mr. Grann treats us to a harrowing
reconstruction of Fawcett's forays into the Amazonian jungle, as
well as an evocative rendering of the vanished age of exploration."
--The New York Times "Breathtaking. . . . Grann brings Fawcett's
remarkable story to a beautifully written, perfectly paced
fruition. . . . Any writer who can breathe life into letters
written by scientists in the early 1900s deserves more than a hat
tip." --The Los Angeles Times "Thoroughly researched, vividly told.
. . . Grann recounts Fawcett's expeditions with all the pace of a
white-knuckle adventure story. . . . A thrill ride from start to
finish." --The Washington Post
"In a hyperconnected and exhaustively charted world, here is a
revelation about wildness and the mad desire to plunge into it. . .
. Unfathomably riveting. . . . Grann wildly delivers the
goods."
--GQ
"Brilliant. . . . Impressively researched and skillfully crafted. .
. . Grann makes abundantly clear in this fascinating, epic story of
exploration and obsession, [that] the lethal attraction of the
Amazon mystery remains strong."
--The Boston Globe
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