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    The Disappearance of Percy Fawcett and Other Famous Vanishings

    By Jane Clapp and Evan Andrews

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    About this ebook

  • Timed to release with the upcoming film The Lost City of Z featuring Charlie Hunnam, Robert Pattinson, and was produced by Brad Pitt, which focuses on Percy Fawcett's search for this mythical area
  • Originally published as Vanishing Point in 1961
  • The book also features articles on other individuals who vanished such as Amelia Earhart, Roger Tichborne, Ambrose Bierce, Lionel Crabb, and others
  • Foreword by Evan Andrews, writer for History.com
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRacehorse Publishing
    Release dateMar 14, 2017
    ISBN9781631581823
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