507 - Finding The Lost City of Z: Percy Fawcett's Suicide Mission

About this episode

The episode explores the obsession of British explorer Percy Fawcett with finding a mythical city in the Amazon and his mysterious disappearance during the expedition.

What began as a search for a mythical city hidden deep within the Amazon became an obsession that consumed famed British explorer Percy Fawcett. In 1925, convinced that an advanced lost civilization known only as “Z” truly existed, Fawcett led a small expedition that included his oldest son into one of the deadliest environments on Earth… and vanished forever. What happened to them? And does Z exist?

People in this episode

Host: Dan Cummins

Topics covered

• exploration
• mythical cities
• Percy Fawcett
• Amazon rainforest
• lost civilizations
• adventure
• disappearance

Keywords

• Percy Fawcett
• Lost City of Z
• Amazon
• exploration
• disappearance
• mythical civilization
• 1925
• adventure
• expedition

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Finding The Lost City of Z

Places: Amazon

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