Marcia C. reviewed on 10/22/2017 + 625 more book reviews

This is a real-life adventure story that, as others have said, reads like a novel. I did not like the way the book was structured, leaving nearly all the recent evidence for ancient civilizations for the very last chapter and presenting it all in a rush. I did not believe that the author was discovering all of that for the first time in that chapter. For me that took away from the "true life" element of the book. With that said, Fawcett (the main character) comes off as a larger-than-life swashbuckler, but I'm not sure whether to see him as a brave hero or as more like Don Quixote.

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