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   Apr 28, 2020 · Schooled as a classic gentleman explorer by the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) in London, former military man Fawcett briefly worked as a spy in Morocco before accepting his first Amazon assignment in 1906: to survey the vague and violent border between Bolivia and Brazil.

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   Dec 29, 2017 · In one of his pre-war lectures to the RGS, Fawcett had spoken of possible ancient ruins in the Amazon forests.

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   While the RGS didn’t believe Fawcett was guilty, neither did they want a scandal, so they asked Fawcett to apologize. It’s unclear whether he did, but he did reconcile with the Society.

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   Jun 6, 2023 · In 1901, Fawcett joined the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), intent on devoting his life to exploration. Renowned as the cradle of Victorian discovery, the RGS had already nurtured some of the most illustrious explorers of the day, including David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley.

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   Fawcett's father had been born in India, and was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), while his elder brother, Edward Douglas Fawcett, was a mountain climber, Eastern occultist and the author of philosophical books and popular adventure novels.

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   Sep 1, 2023 · In 1901, Fawcett joined the Royal Geographical Society (RGS). His time with the army had taken him as far as Hong Kong and had fostered a thirst for travel and exploration. Briefly serving as a surveyor of the British Secret Service in North Africa, Fawcett was eventually tasked with mapping sections of Amazonian jungle in Brazil as part of his ...

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   How did the RGS find Fawcett?

   • In January 1927, the RGS declared and accepted the men as lost, close to two years after the party's last message. Soon after the Society's declaration, there was an outpouring of volunteers to attempt to locate the lost explorers. Many expeditions attempting to find Fawcett failed. At least one lone searcher died in the attempt.

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   Why did Fawcett leave the RGS?

   • The RGS was struggling for funds, and could not finance any further expeditions by Fawcett. The Rubber Boom was over, and attempts to raise funding in South America were further hampered by his new rank, which translated as Comandante, a title frequently given to inept but politically important officers.

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   How did Fawcett change the world?

   • Fawcett’s game-changer came in 1906, when he was 40. The army let him take the Royal Geographical Society’s course on frontier surveying. Far away in South America, Bolivia had just sold its rubber-rich province of Acre to Brazil, so it needed its new north-western boundary mapped. The Bolivians approached the RGS for a mature surveyor to do this.

   The Lost City of Z is a very long way from a true story — and I should

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   Did Fawcett find his lost city?

   • In an ironic twist, though, it now appears that Fawcett had already found his lost city without realising it.

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   What did Fawcett discover?

   • Armed with custom-made machetes, rifles and a ukulele, the intrepid trio hoped to discover a long-lost city that Fawcett was convinced lay deep in the wilderness, beyond the Brazilian Pale: an Atlantis of the jungle, the shell of an ancient and highly developed civilization. It was Fawcett’s eighth foray into the ferociously fecund forest.

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   Where did Fawcett go?

   • From this final settlement, Baikirí Camp, the trio headed further into the jungle, accompanied by guides as far as Dead Horse Camp, where Fawcett had been forced to shoot his mount on the previous expedition.

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   Jul 31, 2009 · This apparent meteoric rise did not translate well into increased success after the war. The RGS was struggling for funds, and could not finance any further expeditions by Fawcett.