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I am not a huge reader of non-fiction. \u00a0For me to really get into a non-fiction title, it usually has to be\u00a0about\u00a0something I really care about (like Say Goodbye to Survival Mode<\/a>) or\u00a0read like fiction (like King of the Mild Frontier<\/a>). \u00a0This fell into the latter category.\u00a0\u00a0A friend had recommended this book to me when it first came out, but it kept getting pushed to the back burner. \u00a0Finally, I told myself that I needed to take a break from all the dystopias I was reading\/listening to and dive into a non-fiction title. \u00a0I’m so glad I did! \u00a0The details were so vivid, and David Grann wrote such a fantastic narrative that I thought to myself, several times, “This would make an awesome movie. \u00a0It’s like a real life Indiana Jones adventure!” \u00a0Imagine my shock and elation, then,\u00a0when I heard [on the radio this morning] that it is going to be made into a movie<\/a>… produced by Brad Pitt, no less. \u00a0So awesome!<\/p>\n One of the things I liked so much about this book\u00a0was the layered storytelling. \u00a0David Grann skillfully wove together his\u00a0own research, planning, and travel experiences with\u00a0stories from primary documents\u00a0relating to\u00a0British\u00a0explorer Percy Fawcett’s quest to rediscover\u00a0the “Lost City\u00a0of\u00a0Z.” \u00a0Though there were\u00a0many stories about an advanced, ancient civilization in the Amazon\u00a0(which some believed to be\u00a0El Dorado), countless explorers failed to find evidence that the city actually existed. \u00a0Instead, many died in their search or brought back “evidence” that the native peoples were not nearly organized or advanced enough to have built the city of legend. \u00a0While many wrote it off as a fable, Percy Fawcett, a member of the Royal Geographical Society, became obsessed and refused to give up the search. \u00a0Fawcett\u00a0became a legend among explorers because of his uncanny ability to avoid the\u00a0injuries and illnesses that often killed other men, let alone his aptitude for\u00a0communicating and negotiating with the various groups of\u00a0natives he encountered. \u00a0I\u00a0don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to see how this plays out on the big screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am not a huge reader of non-fiction. \u00a0For me to really get into a non-fiction title, it usually has to be\u00a0about\u00a0something I really care about (like Say Goodbye to Survival Mode) or\u00a0read like fiction (like King of the Mild Frontier). \u00a0This fell into the latter category.\u00a0\u00a0A friend had recommended this book to me when … Continue reading The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,6,10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-books-for-young-adults","category-nonfiction","category-reviewed-by-chrissie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}