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A review by girrllie
The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann
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.
Graphic: Child death, Death, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Death of parent, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail