How It All Goes Down
The Search Begins
- This chapter reads like David Grann's OkCupid profile.
- Five foot nine. Forty years old. Terrible sense of direction. Doesn't like to camp. Takes the elevator instead of the stairs.
- Swipe right, Shmoopers.
- While researching a story related to Arthur Conan Doyle, Grann stumbles across a reference to Col. Fawcett, who inspired Doyle's The Lost World. (Not the lame Jurassic Park sequel.)
- Grann learns that Fawcett disappeared—and that many explorers are still obsessed with finding him.
- Grann becomes one of the obsessed, and he plans to go into the Amazon.
- Specifically, Grann will need to go into the Xingu region, where Fawcett was last seen, and where James Lynch, from Chapter 2, was kidnapped.
- Grann promises his wife to prepare himself first. He sets off for England to investigate.
- If you can survive on English food for a week, you can survive anything.