Summary of The Lost City of Z

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice. The Lost City of Z is a gripping narrative of obsession, mystery, and the eternal allure of the unknown. At its core is Percy Fawcett, the legendary British explorer who vanished in 1925 while searching for an ancient civilization he believed lay hidden beneath the Amazon’s dense canopy. For centuries, Europeans had been enthralled by tales of El Dorado, a city of gold said to exist in the world’s largest jungle. Most expeditions ended in failure and death, convincing scholars that the Amazon was an unforgiving wilderness hostile to human settlement. Fawcett, however, was undeterred. Drawing on years of exploration and research, he argued that remnants of an advanced civilization—what he named “Z”—were buried within the rainforest. When Fawcett embarked on his final expedition, he did so with his son Jack and Jack’s best friend, determined to find proof that the Amazon had once supported thriving, sophisticated societies. His meticulous diaries and cryptic letters sparked global fascination, but when he and his companions disappeared without a trace, the expedition shifted from a quest for discovery to one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Generations of explorers, adventurers, and fortune seekers followed in his footsteps, many meeting the same fate: disease, starvation, madness, or disappearance in the green labyrinth of the jungle.