I should start my review by stating that I have never wanted to visit the Amazon and do not understand its lure. This book reinforced that for me, except for the last chapter. Ostensibly, the book is about Colonel Fawcett's journey to find the City of Z, but we are left just as clueless about his journey by the time we finish the book. On the other hand, the last chapter does explain why no one of that time period was able to find Z. This chapter made me wish I had read some of the books written by the archaeologists cited, rather than this selection.