{"title":"Percy Fawcett","description":"\u003cp\u003eO coronel Percy Harrison Fawcett nasceu em 1867 no condado de Devon, Inglaterra. Aos 19 anos, tornou-se oficial da Artilharia Real. Serviu no Ceilão, hoje Sri Lanka, por vários anos, onde conheceu e se casou com sua esposa, Nina. Mais tarde, trabalhou para o serviço secreto britânico no norte da África. Entediou-se com a vida no Exército e aprendeu a arte da topografia, na esperança de ter um trabalho mais emocionante. Em 1906, veio o convite para integrar a Sociedade Geográfica Real: sua passagem para a aventura. No verão de 1925, o coronel Percy Fawcett adentrou a região da floresta amazônica no Mato Grosso, onde desapareceu em circunstâncias misteriosas e até hoje não esclarecidas.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-expedicao-fawcett","title":"The Fawcett Expedition","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe true story of a journey into the heart of Brazil, in search of a lost city and its great treasures, \u003cem\u003eThe Fawcett Expedition\u003c\/em\u003e tells the adventures of Percy Fawcett, a British explorer whose whereabouts ― after disappearing in Serra do Roncador (MT) ― are still unknown.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBetween 1906 and 1924, the famous British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett made several forays into the Amazon to map the territory and its borders with the support of the Royal Geographical Society. From the Bolivian Amazon rainforest to the Bahian caatinga, he explored the local fauna, flora, and archaeology, meeting indigenous peoples of the most diverse ethnicities. Until 1925, he set off with his eldest son, Jack Fawcett, and a friend of his, Raleigh Rimmell, on his most daring mission: the search for the ruins of a lost city, the base of a complex civilization teeming with gold and riches, which he called Z, the Brazilian Eldorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eConvinced of their existence by an 18th-century manuscript found in Brazil, the trio of English explorers arrived in Cuiabá and entered the dense and still relatively unexplored territory of the Serra do Roncador, on the border between the Cerrado and the Amazon rainforest. Three months after the expedition began, in May 1925, Percy Fawcett sent his last letter to his wife, reassuring her: \"You need not fear any failure.\" After that, he and his expedition disappeared forever, and all subsequent attempts to discover their whereabouts were futile. Colonel Fawcett's life and the mystery of what happened to him have inspired many stories since then, the most famous of which is the Indiana Jones film series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n \u003cp\u003eBringing together letters, diaries and accounts from ten years of the explorer's travels through dangerous forests and rivers, encounters with hostile and friendly peoples, bad weather, diseases and wild animals, \u003cem\u003eThe Fawcett Expedition\u003c\/em\u003e , organized by Brian Fawcett, the colonel's youngest son, tells of an era of risky expeditions, discoveries about nature and encounters with the native peoples of South America, from the perspective of a prominent naturalist of his time, who left behind one of the greatest enigmas of the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175902953724,"sku":"9788501093332","price":129.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/8d8eb575a05c9f6c78d1e3c5a198006e_be15c495-3c59-4840-9bac-5aa105bcca53.jpg?v=1778815345"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/percy-fawcett.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}