Study Guide

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon Characters

By David Grann

Colonel Percy Fawcett is one part Colonel Mustard from Clue, two parts Indiana Jones, and one...

If Colonel Fawcett is Indiana Jones, then David Grann is Willie Scott from Temple of Doom, but...

It's only a matter of time before someone writes one of those annoyingly titled books in which...

Jack is the apple of his father's eye. Wait. Do they have apples in the Amazon jungle? Perhaps we...

If you ever misspell Brian Fawcett's name as Brain Fawcett, we forgive you. Jack is the brawn,...

Raleigh and Jack are BFFs. Raleigh admires Jack Fawcett because everyone admires Jack Fawcett....

Alexander Hamilton Rice is the Mariah Carey to Fawcett's Jennifer Lopez. We picture a reporter...

It doesn't take a scientist to realize that James Murray has a snowball's shot in Tahiti at...

Dyott is an explorer from the year 3 A.F. That's "After Fawcett."Fawcett disappeared around 1925,...

You can't believe everything you read on the Internet (unless you read it here), and you can't...

We only mention Henry Costin because Robert Pattinson plays him in the movie. Grann writes little...

This being a nonfiction story, many real people are mentioned, but not everyone is developed into...