Considered the Primary Source Material for about half of Literature's Jungle Books . . .

Rating: 8/10 (8 May 2017)

. . . Percy Fawcett was friends with the authors of SHERLOCK HOLMES and SHE. He's also the inspiration for the Monty Python skit in which one of the crew takes a Backbush Constitutional and another soon stumbles into the steaming pile, removes his boot, sniffs its sole, and remarks, "Dr. Livingston, I presume." That's because Percy entered the Amazonia Rain Forest on his Lucky Seventh Expedition intending to install his eldest son Jack as God for the local tribes, only to Beta Test the Art of the Deal: Percy himself wriggled out of a sticky wicket by divvying up Jack's remains among the tribe in question, cementing his own future as a Cannibal King and giving rise to the English fatalism, "Sometimes you eat the Gods, and sometimes the Gods eat you." Essentially, THE LOST CITY OF Z covers about 8% of the tamer events in Percy Fawcett's known life. In addition to discovering perhaps half of South America's various unique species, Percy may well have stumbled across one or more Fountains of Youth, in which case he's still alive and chowing down on "the other White meat" even Today!