LOST TRAILS, LOST CITIES (1953)

"If we should not come out, I don't want rescue parties to come in looking for us. It's too risky. If with all my experience we can't make it, there's not much hope for others."

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Percy Harrison Fawcett DSO was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist and explorer of South America. He disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of Jack's friends, Raleigh Rimell) during an expedition to find "Z" – his name for an ancient lost city which he and others believed existed in the jungles of Brazil.

Lost Trails, Lost Cities is a compilation of Fawcett's accounts and writings compiled by one of his other sons, Brian. By braiding together content from journals and excerpts from letters Fawcett wrote to his wife, Brian creates a chronological narrative of the explorer's expeditionary career, right up to the last letter he wrote before pressing further into the forest in search of "Z." 

This vintage copy is slightly used with some tape holding the front cover and initial pages together. Published in 1953.