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The Lost City of Z: a legendary British explorer's deadly quest to uncover the secrets of the Amazon by David Grann
3 reviews
girrllie's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
informative
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
2.0
Soooo boring reading about someone else’s obsession with an explorer and everything the author is reading about him. My parents lived in the Congo in the 60s and had many stories about botflies and my own mother actually had elephantitis at one point. They are both long passed away so the disease and pestilence parts felt a little like home. The personality conflicts were interesting too. And the information about the tribes. But those four things don’t make a whole book. I felt like I was slogging through the book like someone slogging through the jungle.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
directorpurry's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
3.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Racism, Torture, Violence, Medical content, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Child death and Cannibalism
ezulc's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
3.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Death, Drug use, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Racism, Slavery, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Cannibalism, Religious bigotry, Death of parent, Murder, Abandonment, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
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