City of Z: David Grann's Moment of Madness in the Amazon
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City of Z: David Grann's Moment of Madness in the Amazon
Chautauqua Institution - Chautauqua Amphitheater
David Grann, a staff writer at The New Yorker, presents his best-selling book, The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, for the CLSC August 12.Published by Doubleday, The Lost City of Z is an exploration into what happened to British explorer Percy Fawcett and his quest to find the lost city of El Dorado, which he called "Z." The book is Grann's first and is being developed into a movie by Brad Pitt's Plan B production company and Paramount Pictures.