![]() That chapter also has information about Fawcett choosing to call that city he was looking for, "Z" (p. 324) or cannibals, and others that he thinks are highly intelligent and skilled. In chapter 20 of Exploration Fawcett, I read Fawcett's descriptions of many different Indigenous people, some that he calls "wild people" (p. My point: British people didn't know where it was saying "nobody" means that the only people who count, in this book, are British. British expeditions were all over South America, looking for riches and enslaving Indigenous people to work on plantations and in mines. By the time Fawcett was traipsing about, the Indigenous people of South America had been fighting Brits for literally, hundreds of years. For various reasons, Indigenous people who knew where it was might withhold its location from the likes of Fawcett. If you centered the story in an Indigenous point of view, would we be reading "no one" knew where it was? I doubt it. The British didn't know where that city was. That centers the story-and the reader, too-in a British point of view. ![]() Pizzoli's biography of Fawcett starts on page 5 with a legend of an ancient city in Brazil that had been "forgotten." He tells us that "no one" knew where it was. This is the true story of one man’s thrilling, dangerous journey into the jungle, and what he found on his quest for the lost city of Z. But if Fawcett could find it, he would be rich and famous forever. Most people didn’t even believe this city existed. Here's the description for The Quest For Z:īritish explorer Percy Fawcett believed that hidden deep within the Amazon rainforest was an ancient city, lost for the ages. Titled "Hostiles" here's a screen cap from the opening scene: It depicts a pioneer family, dead, with arrows in them. He told me about a scene in the recently released movie, Ghost Story. Thomas Crisp about that image in Pizzoli's book. ![]() A few pages prior to that image in The Quest for Z, we read that Fawcett had planned for encounters with "hostile" tribes.Ī few days ago, I was talking with Dr. Below, you'll see that Pizzoli created an image of one of Fawcett's crewman, dead, with 42 arrows in his body. You've heard that "a picture is worth 1000 words." My red x conveys a great deal.Ī picture is, indeed, worth a thousand words. See that red x over the cover of the book? For some time now, I've been using that red x to provide people with a visual signal that I do not recommend a particular book. Published in 2017 by Viking/Penguin, I disagree with the starred and positive reviews it is getting from mainstream journals. Back in July, I wrote (a little) about Greg Pizzoli's The Quest for Z: The True Story of Explorer Percy Fawcett and a Lost City in the Amazon. ![]()
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