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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
4 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
dominicangirl's review against another edition
sad
medium-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Slavery and Kidnapping
Moderate: Racism, Xenophobia, and Colonisation
Minor: Toxic friendship
grace_b_3's review against another edition
informative
sad
slow-paced
2.0
I really liked Killers of the Flower Moon, but this one wasn’t as compelling for me.
This was an earlier book by Grann, so part of it may be him figuring out his writing style and such. I didn’t like how present he was in the narrative of this book.
I also found the subject matter of Killers more interesting. There were things in this book that I would like to learn more about (mainly about the various Amazonian tribes and the lost civilization found there), but the focus, Fawcett, is what I found the least interesting. I did like the angle of his family and learning how his and Jack’s disappearance affected them, but the actual narrative of various expeditions to the Amazon was not what kept me reading. Exploring the Amazon seems like a horrible experience and reading about someone repeatedly subjecting themself and others to it just wasn’t for me.
If you find people pushing themselves to the limits of their endurance in harsh environments compelling, this might be the book for you. Especially if you enjoy a story with a tragic, doomed air—from the start you know he went into and never came out and the book is just building towards that moment.
This was an earlier book by Grann, so part of it may be him figuring out his writing style and such. I didn’t like how present he was in the narrative of this book.
I also found the subject matter of Killers more interesting. There were things in this book that I would like to learn more about (mainly about the various Amazonian tribes and the lost civilization found there), but the focus, Fawcett, is what I found the least interesting. I did like the angle of his family and learning how his and Jack’s disappearance affected them, but the actual narrative of various expeditions to the Amazon was not what kept me reading. Exploring the Amazon seems like a horrible experience and reading about someone repeatedly subjecting themself and others to it just wasn’t for me.
If you find people pushing themselves to the limits of their endurance in harsh environments compelling, this might be the book for you.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Genocide, Gore, Slavery, Violence, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Colonisation, War, and Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Torture and Abandonment
Insectshorizonous's review against another edition
adventurous
informative
medium-paced
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Racism, Medical content, and Cannibalism
Moderate: Animal death, Genocide, and Slavery
Minor: Kidnapping