As part of my recent Presidential biography reading, I read River of Doubt, the story of Theodore Roosevelt descending an unexplored Amazon river after his Presidency. The book pretty well convinced me that I don't want to spend a lot of time exploring the Amazon. The Lost City of Z did the same thing. I don't think I've ever read the line, "The men were never heard from again" more frequently than in this book. Z is very well written; it tells two stories. The first story is that of PH Fawcett, an explorer who set out to find evidence Read more…