In 1925, British officer Percy Fawcett went into the impenetrable forests of the Amazon to find the Inca capital, the legendary Eldorado that he called “the City Z.” The expedition disappeared—and many people took up the search. And for some of them, it cost their lives. In 2005, New York journalist David Grann became interested in the fate of the brave colonel and, unexpectedly for himself, also went to Brazil. His book is both a historical investigation and a tragicomic series of misadventures of a modern city dweller who finds himself in the jungle. It is also an excited account of a magnificent and still little-explored region. In 2009 the book made the shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for best nonfiction, and soon it became known about an upcoming film adaptation. Brad Pitt has been invited to play Fawcett.