The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

While Fawcett is away, Nina moves the family to Los Angeles from Jamaica. Jack’s friend Raleigh is also there, and the two young men develop Hollywood aspirations. Back home, Fawcett asks Jack to join him on his next expedition. Jack agrees and insists that Raleigh should accompany them. Meanwhile, Fawcett’s obsession has left the family on the edge of poverty. He requested funding from the RGS, but they declined based on his last unsuccessful venture, which had bankrupted him personally to conduct. Unable to afford Los Angeles, the Fawcetts return to England and rent a home with no modern amenities, forcing the family to pump their own water and chop wood for heat and cooking. The younger children are forced to quit school to help take care of the household and to take small jobs for some money. Fawcett, frustrated with the scientific community, retreats into the spiritual realm, writes articles for occult magazines, and broods over his misfortune. In September 1924, Fawcett meets George Lynch, a well-connected war correspondent who is also fascinated by the idea of Z, so he helps secure funding from both British and American sources by selling the rights to Fawcett’s story of the expedition.