Percy Fawcett
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Death in absentia
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1925) was a British artillery officer
Royal Artillery
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, archaeologist
Archaeology
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and South American
South America
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explorer
Exploration
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.
Along with his eldest son, Fawcett disappeared under unknown circumstances in 1925 during an expedition to find "Z
Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z is the name given by Col. Percy Harrison Fawcett, a British surveyor, to a city that he thought existed in the jungle of the Mato Grosso region of Brazil...
" – his name for what he believed to be an ancient
Ancient history
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lost city
Lost city
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in the uncharted jungle
Jungle
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s of Brazil
Brazil
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. John Hemming
John Hemming (explorer)
Dr John Hemming, CMG is a Canadian explorer and author, expert on Incas and indigenous peoples of Amazonia.-Biography:Hemming was born in Vancouver because his Canadian father, Henry Harold Hemming OBE, MC, had been through the trenches in the First World War, saw the Second coming, and wanted him...
, the Canadian explorer and historian of the Brazilian Indians, declared Fawcett a “Nietzschean explorer” spouting “eugenic gibberish”, although the writer David Grann
David Grann
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also believes that Fawcett exhibited enlightened traits.
Percy Fawcett was born on 18 August 1867 in Torquay
Torquay
Torquay is a town in the unitary authority area of Torbay and ceremonial county of Devon, England. It lies south of Exeter along the A380 on the north of Torbay, north-east of Plymouth and adjoins the neighbouring town of Paignton on the west of the bay. Torquay’s population of 63,998 during the...
, Devon, England to Edward Boyd Fawcett and Myra Elizabeth (nee Macdougall).
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