He and hisĬompanions could have been killed by hostile Indians, perhaps the There are plenty of theories regarding Fawcett's fate. The trio was last heard from at what Fawcett called Dead Lawrence of Arabia - wanted to go, but Fawcett He brought along his eldest son Jack and Jack's friend Raleigh Rimmell. On Fawcett's last journey to the Mato Grosso in the spring of 1925, Rider Haggard, author of She and King Solomon's Mines, among others. The famous science-fiction novel The Lost World, and H. Published and lost while sent to publishers in 1924.) Fawcett's earlyĪdventures inspired such writers as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote (Colonel Fawcett'sĪutobiography, titled "Travel and Mystery in South America" was never But, alas,įawcett found nary a stone block of his fanciful jungle metropolis.Ĭolonel Fawcett's son Brian wrote about his father's exploits in the book Lost Trails, Lost Cities,Ī scrapping good adventure story published in 1953. Fawcett made seven expeditions between 1906Īnd 1924, exploring mostly the Mato Grosso region of Brazil. People, the descendants of which Fawcett claimed to have seen during The capital of fabled Atlantis, and/or that it may also have had someĬonnection to the ancient Celts, a fair-skinned, red- or blonde-haired (Seven Cities), for which the conquistadors had searched in vain forĬenturies. Perhaps this fabulous place was one of the Sete Cidades He figured the city was perhaps 11,000 years old andĬontained much gold. Were found resembling Celtic Ogham, an extinct Irish language.įawcett surmised that this lost city existed in the Mato Grosso The expedition discovered the ruins of an immense stone city,Īpparently abandoned and, on some of the stone monuments, hieroglyphs 512, which showed a record of a Portuguese expedition to the Amazon Inġ920 he visited a library in Rio de Janeiro where he found manuscript In the following years, Fawcettĭeveloped an interest in the legendary lost cities of South America. Working as a surveyor for the Royal Geographic Society, Fawcett mappedĪn area between Bolivia and Brazil. The British armed forces, including service during World War I.įawcett's first expedition to South America took place in 1906.
COLOL FAWCETT SOUTH AMERICA MOVIE
May have been the inspiration behind the creation of movie characterĬolonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was born in 1867 in Devon, England.įawcett acquired the military appellation, Colonel, while working in It's time to find out about this fascinating fellow, who, some think, You may ask yourself who in the heck is Colonel Fawcett? Well, now Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the wilds of Brazil. And way back in May 1925 British explorer Colonel Others have vanished: Amelia Earhart, Jimmy Hoffa, Michael RockefellerĪnd D.B. Wreckage of his plane and his remains were later found.
Recently, adventurer andĪviator Steve Fossett went missing while flying over Nevada and the Tale of a Lost Explorer and Lost City by Kosmo The Real Indiana Jones?įrom time to time, famous people disappear.
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