MAN HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE—G. M. Dyott—Bobbs Merrill ($5). Why is an explorer? They give various excuses for their wanderings. When Explorer P. H. Fawcett, with his son Jack and Raleigh Rimell, trekked ...

LOST TRAILS, LOST CITIES (332 pp.)—Colonel P. H. Fawcett—Funk & Wag-nails ($5). On May 30, 1925, the green wave of Brazil’s Mato Grosso Plateau closed for the last time over the head of Colonel Percy ...

Col. Percy Fawcett was right. Who? Post-Dispatch readers of the 1920s and 1930s could have told you. Back in the day, he was a sensation — a classically eccentric English explorer who captivated ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- The Canadian Detachment at the Western Air Defense Sector officially changed command at Joint Base Lewis-McChord July 10. Lieutenant Colonel Michael Fawcett assumed ...

When Colonel Fawcett disappeared into the South American jungle for the last time, he left the manuscript of this book behind him. His family withheld its publication in the hope that he would return ...

In “The Lost City of Z,” director James Gray’s adaptation of the eponymous book is a tremendous depiction of obsession and the drive to find truth in human history. In contrast to many historical ...

Evansville - Lt. /Col. Robert Carl Fawcett, retired, age 85, passed away on September 12, 2021. He served for the USAF as a pilot for 22 years. After his retirement from the Air Force, he became a ...