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El Dorado was inspired by Victorian Explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, and his search for a Lost City in the Amazon jungle
The last sign of Fawcett was on May 29, 1925 when he telegraphed his wife that he was ready to go into unexplored territory with Jack and Raleigh Rimmell. They were reported to be crossing the Upper Xingu, a south-eastern tributary of the Amazon River. They would be entering the domain of hostile Indians that would certainly have included tribes of cannibals. The Fawcett expedition was not expected back until 1927, and when they failed to reappear out of the jungle it caught the public's attention and the newspapers soon started speculation on what could have happened to them.
As to be expected, fingers were pointed at the local tribes of Indians, some said it was they who had killed them. Several tribes being named at the time included the Kalapalos Indians who last saw them at Dead Horse Camp, their last known position, also the Arumás, Suyás, or Xavantes tribes whose territory they were entering. Both of the younger men were lame and ill when last seen, and without any proof one way or the other, we cannot be certain if they were murdered or died of natural causes in the Amazon jungle.
Despite the colonel's wishes that no one should come looking for them if they failed to return, more than a dozen expeditions have subsequently set out to discover their, allegedly claiming the lives of a hundred men. It seemed, for some, looking for Fawcett became an obsession, even a profession of sorts, offering exactly the type of adventure the colonel himself found so addictive. And there was commercial gain to be had too, whether in the form of book deals and newspaper articles for those leading rescue parties, or rewards for those Indians willing to reveal evidence, however spurious, of the lost expedition
A mysterious manuscript
Colonel Fawcett seems to have been heavily influenced that a Lost City existed in the unexplored regions of the Amazon jungle after reading an old document he found in the library archives at Rio de Janeiro in 1920. Labelled Manuscript 512, it arrived in Rio de Janeiro in 1754 and is a report detailing the findings of a Portuguese expedition into the Amazon interior in 1743.
Search for Fawcett and his Lost City of Z
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Victorian Explorer Colonel Percy FawcettColonel Fawcett entered the Amazon jungle in 1925 searching for a lost city he had named 'Z'. He was never heard of again. |
Manuscript 512Convinced the the details of the port expedition were based on fact, it was evidence that his theory of a lost city still waiting to be discovered lies hidden in the Amazon jungle. |
Fawcett's old drink flaskThe modern day expedition to discover Fawcett's fate is brought about when his flask is washed ashore a beach. |
Fawcett Expedition Map
Continue the adventure
The story continues in EL DORADO - Book 2 - Fabled Lost Treasure: The Lost City Book 2 - The Secret City
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Bookfiend
Very commercial concept but some of the writing holds it back
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 5, 2017