My talk on my “moment of madness in the Amazon” at Chautauqua Institution is online at Fora.tv, available with a subscription or day pass.

David Grann discusses The Lost City of Z on the Colbert Report.

New Yorker writer David Grann set out into the Amazon to find Percy Fawcett, the explorer who died searching for the fabled kingdom of El Dorado in 1925. Then he got lost himself. A spine-tingling …

The Lost City of Z is one of six finalists for England’s highest non-fiction award.

Great piece in The Times on Fawcett and recent discoveries in the Amazon: Recent archaeological research, using satellite imagery and radar, has uncovered convincing proof of large pre-Columbian …

The book was chosen as one of the best books of the year by many newspapers and magazines in the United States and around the world. The New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani selected “The Lost City …