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Magazine: 1 April 2017

Lost city of fantasy

A new Hollywood film hypes Percy Fawcett as a great explorer. In fact, he was a racist incompetent who achieved very little

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The Lost City of Zbarraca

John Hemming corrects the Fawcett record on our podcast:Geographical Journal Exploration Fawcett
I have visited over 40 Amazon Indian peoples, and none matched the description that Fawcett gives
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John Hemming is a Canadian explorer; the three volumes of his history of Brazilian Indians are Red Gold (1978), Amazon Frontier (1985) and Die If You Must (2004)
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