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The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
In 1925, the legendary British explorer Percy Fawcett ventured into the Amazon jungle, in search of a fabled civilization. He never returned. Over the years countless perished trying to find evidence of his party and the place he called “The Lost City of Z.” In this masterpiece of narrative nonfiction, journalist David Grann interweaves the spellbinding stories of Fawcett’s quest for “Z” and his own journey into the deadly jungle, as he unravels the greatest exploration mystery of the twentieth century.
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Funny!
I’m never going to think of disinfectants the same way again.
They just make the survivors tougher…and bitter.
How would you feel if someone killed 99.99 percent of your friends and family but left you alive? The Count of Monte Cristo had less motivaton!
Good point! Purell just pisses them off. Soon there’ll be armies of super-resistant germs living in hospitals everywhere… oh wait, that’s already happened.
I’d like a spray can of something that kills 99.9% of PEOPLE who sneeze in public. That would solve a few problems.
I’ll invest!