Adventure - Nonfiction

 

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1. The lost city of Z: a tale of deadly obsession in the Amazon

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Author:
Grann, David
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Interweaves the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished during a 1925 expedition into the Amazon, with the author's own quest to uncover the mysteries surrounding Fawcett's final journey and the secrets of what lies deep in the Amazon jungle.

2. Savage harvest: a tale of cannibals, colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller's tragic quest for primitive art

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Author:
Hoffman, Carl, 1960-
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Retracing Rockefeller's steps, journalist Carl Hoffman traveled to the jungles of New Guinea to solve a decades-old mystery and illuminate a culture transformed by years of colonial rule.

3. The wide wide sea: imperial ambition, first contact and the fateful final voyage of Captain James Cook

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Sides, Hampton
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"An epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this day ... On July 12th, 1776, Captain James Cook, already lionized as the greatest explorer in British history, set off on his third voyage in his ship the HMS Resolution. Two-and-a-half years later, on a beach on the island of Hawaii, Cook was killed in a...