13 “If with all”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 304.
13 “will be no pampered”: Ibid., pp. 14-15.
13 “We will have to suffer”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1925.
13 “to harass and”: Ibid.
13 “the reflection of”: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 24.
13 “six feet three”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 277.
13 “He is… absolutely”: Ibid., p. 15.
14 “fine physique”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “General Details of Proposed Expedition in S. America” (proposal), n.d., RGS.
14 “He was a born”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 277.
14 “Now we have Raleigh”: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 10.
14 “utterly impracticable”: Dickens, American Notes, p. 13.
15 “hearse with windows”: Ibid., p. 14.
15 “perfect ventilation”: Lamport & Holt brochure, “South America.”
15 “rather tiresome”: Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 278.
16 “Jack has”: Ibid., p. 15.
16 “Raleigh will follow”: Ibid.
16 “We shall return”: Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 1925.
17 It begins as barely: My descriptions of the Amazon River are drawn from several sources. They include Goulding, Barthem, and Ferreira, Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon; Revkin, Burning Season; Haskins, Amazon; Whitmore, Introduction to Tropi cal Rain Forests; Bates, Naturalist on the River Amazons; and Price, Amazing Amazon.
19 The expedition was: My descriptions of the 1996 expedition are based on my interviews with James Lynch and members of his team as well as on information from Leal's Coronel Fawcett.
19 “among the most”: Temple, “E. Douglas Fawcett,” p. 29.
19 “captured the imagination”: Daily Mail (London), Jan. 30, 1996.
19 Evelyn Waugh's: Heath, Picturesque Prison, p. 116.
20 “Enough legend”: Fleming, Brazilian Adventure, p. 104.
20 “than those launched”: New York Times, Feb. 13, 1955.
21 “Our route”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 269. 21 Even today: New York Times, Jan. 18, 2007.
21 “These forests are”: Hemming, Die If You Must, p. 635.
22 “No one knows”: Ibid.
22 In 2006, members: New York Times, May 11, 2006.
22 “only one and all”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Case for an Expedition in the Amazon Basin” (proposal), RGS.
23 “a corpse piece”: Quoted in Millard, River of Doubt, p. 168.
29 many archaeologists and geographers: For a much more detailed discussion of the academic debate over advanced civilizations in the Amazon, see Mann's 1491.
30 “counterfeit paradise”: See Meggers, Amazonia.
30 “cultural substitutes”: Ibid., p. 104.
30 “This is the jungle”: Cowell, Tribe That Hides from Man, p. 66.
30 As Charles Mann notes: Mann, 1491, p. 9.
30 “the most culturally”: Holmberg, Nomads of the Long Bow, p. 17.
30 “No records”: Ibid., p. 122.
30 “concept of romantic”: Ibid., p. 161.
30 “man in the”: Ibid., p. 261.
30 a more sophisticated: Mann, 1491, p. 328.
33 “the callowest”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Passing of Trinco,” p. 110.
34 “Beneath these rocks”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Gold Bricks at Badulla,” p. 223. 34 “As an impecunious”: Ibid., p. 232.
34 “possessed great abilities”: From a self-published article by Timothy Paterson, “Douglas Fawcett and Imaginism,” p. 2.
35 “Her unhappy married”: Ibid.
35 “hateful”: Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.
35 “Perhaps it was all”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 15.
35 “did nothing to”: Ibid., p. 16.
35 notion of a gentleman: For details on the Victorian customs and ethos, see the 1865 manual The Habits of Good Society; Campbell, Etiquette of Good Society; and Bristow, Vice and Vigilance.
35 “the memorable horror”: Fawcett, Exploration Fawcett, p. 211.
36 “craving for sensual”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Obsession,” p. 476. 36 “a natural leader”: Girouard, Return to Camelot, p. 260.
36 “it takes something”: From a newspaper article in Fawcett's scrapbook, Fawcett Family Papers. 36
36 Royal Military Academy at Woolwich: See Guggisberg, Shop.
36 “The fashion of torture”: Ibid., p. 57.
36 “to regard the risk”: Hankey, Student in Arms, p. 87.
37 Now, as Fawcett: Details of Sri Lanka in the 1890s come from various books of the time, including Ferguson, Ceylon in 1893; Willis, Ceylon; and Cave, Golden Tips.
37 “Dear me”: Twain, Following the Equator, p. 336.
38 “I'm afraid”: Fawcett, “Gold Bricks at Badulla,” p. 225. 38 “Did the hound”: Ibid., p. 231.
38 “Ceylon is a very”: Ibid., p. 232.
39 “He obviously did”: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 16.
39 “the way the ladies”: Quotation from a newspaper article found in Fawcett's scrap-book, Fawcett Family Papers.
39 “the only one”: Curieux, Sept. 26, 1951.
39 “she always had”: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 18.
40 “I was very happy”: Curieux, Sept. 26, 1951. 40 “My life would”: Ibid.
40 “a silly old”: Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.
40 “You are not”: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 3.
40 “It took me”: Curieux, Sept. 26, 1951.
40 “Destiny cruelly”: Ibid.
40 “Go… and marry”: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 3. A similar account can be found in Hambloch, Here and There.
40 “begged her to”: My interview with Fawcett's granddaughter, Rolette.