Disturbing and riveting…Grann has proved himself a master of spinning delicious, many-layered mysteries that also happen to be true…It will sear your soul.
— Dave Eggers, New York Times Book Review
Updates
“A powerful true story of adventure and obsession in the Antarctic, lavishly illustrated with color photographs
By the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon. David Grann tells Worsley’s remarkable story with the intensity and power that have led him to be called “simply the best narrative nonfiction writer working today.”
“No journalist working today spins a yarn quite like The New Yorker’s David Grann.” — Slate
Sherlock Holmes once said that “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.” In that same spirit of curiosity and discovery, David Grann sets out to solve a dozen real-life mysteries in these hypnotic accounts.
New York Times #1 best-seller, and now a major motion picture
A grand mystery reaching back centuries. A sensational disappearance that made headlines around the world. A quest for truth that leads to death, madness or disappearance for those who seek to solve it. The Lost City of Z is a blockbuster adventure narrative about what lies beneath the impenetrable jungle canopy of the Amazon.
Watch Lost City of Z Movie Trailer
A true-life drama, centering on British explorer Col. Percival Fawcett, who disappeared whilst searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon in the 1920s.Images from The White Darkness
Henry Worsley credit: courtesy of Sebastian Copeland
credit: RGS
Frank Worsley credit: Getty
credit: RGS
credit: Getty
credit: RGS
credit: Getty
credit: Getty