The Lost City of Z – Thoughts

I didn’t expect to get pulled into this book the way I did.

The part that pulled me in the most was his obsession with the thought of finding the lost city. How there seems to be no other path for him. It was all in or nothing.

It’s interesting to see people so in depth with their goals and purpose in life.

While reading it I felt like I was cheering him on. Though he had a good position in life and a family, it always seems like there was something or someone bigger and better than him.

It felt like he was an underdog a lot of times and I kept having hope that things would turn up in his favor and in his lifetime.

It didn’t change my thoughts about exploration, obsession, or history, but it did open my thoughts on these subjects. We always hear about explorers, but I think this exploration into the amazon in general seemed so intense. There were so many bad things that happened to these explorers, yet they kept going on, they did not give up, they had a goal in mind, and they kept at it, no matter the cost.

What surprised me about Fawcett was how lucky he had been since he first explored his last exploration. He went through so many obstacles from the jungle itself to the people who surrounded him. And he survived what many others would not have had the luck to. The wild is no joke. Bugs, insects, and animals can be lethal in a jungle that you are unfamiliar with. The weeks and months of trying to adapt to that seems painful. I already hate the mosquito bites I have to endure in Houston. Lol. I think that is also what surprised me about Amazon. Yes, it is full of life and mystery, and I guess that’s the danger of it all. The weather, the constant change in landform from rain etc. No wonder the Amazon is still the amazing Amazon and not destroyed and lived upon like how we are in the cities.

What stayed on my mind after finishing this book was that Percy Fawcett was so close to fulfilling his goal of finding the lost city of z. He was right there, and he didn’t even know it. If only he knew he would not have kept going to where death lay for him. Or would he still have gone? Being an explorer he is, I think he would have kept going eventually. Trying to see what else was beyond the unknown.