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Lost Trails, Lost Cities, by Colonel P. H. Fawcett. Absorbing memoirs of the jungles and savannas of remotest Brazil, by an explorer who failed to return from his last expedition (TIME...
Lost Trails, Lost Cities, by Colonel P. H. Fawcett. Absorbing memoirs of the jungles and savannas of remotest Brazil, by an explorer who failed to return from his last expedition (TIME...
...from your review of Lost Trails, Lost-Cities [TIME, May 25] that the famous Colonel P. H. Fawcett, in common with nearly all other explorers of Amazonas and Mato Grosso, is not above grossly exaggerating the size of the Brazilian anaconda. Stories of sucurīs 40 to 50 ft. long are common in Brazil, but they always turn out to be third hand, and neither the snake nor the actual person who saw it can be located! Some years ago, R. L. Ditmars, curator of reptiles at the Bronx Zoo and one of the world's foremost experts...
Lost Trails, Lost Cities, by Colonel P. H. Fawcett. Absorbing memoirs of the jungles and savannas of remotest Brazil, by the famed explorer, who failed to return from his last expedition (TIME...
...such odd lights and glimmerings, Explorer Fawcett conceived his grail and followed...