The Lost City of Z

Think I will slot this one into the “Read a Travel Memoir” category for the 2017 Read Harder Challenge, although it's a travel memoir wrapped around the story of one of the last great British explorers, Percy Fawcett. The author attempts to discover the fate of Fawcett, who was obsessed with finding the Lost City of Z (or, El Dorado) and disappeared while doing so. Good riddance to the age of the great white explorer, I say, since invariably these obsessions wrecked families, triggered ecological disasters, and decimated native populations.