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Murmur - Episode #21 - Murmur Book Club - Lost City of Z
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April 13, 2010 - In this third outing for the Murmur Book Club, Paul Montgomery and Josh Christie journey into the Amazon to discuss David Grann's The Lost City of Z, a tale of archaeological obsession. In 1925 Percy Fawcett, his son Jack, and a team of explorers and porters embarked on an expedition into the rain forest to locate a mythic lost city. They never returned. After nearly a century and dozens of rescue missions, we're no closer to solving the mystery. But that doesn't stop intrepid reporter David Grann from writing a gripping yarn about Fawcett's lifelong obsession as well as his own modern expedition into the Green Hell. It's a badass history lesson even for those who tend to thumb their noses at nonfiction.
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