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Raiders of the Lost City

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 interview.

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David Grann is a New Yorker staff writer who, by his own admission, is unadventurous and prone to get lost on the C train. And yet for his new book, The

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