12 great books for Father's Day

10. The Lost City of Z, by David Grann

Journalist David Grann follows the lost trail of a yet unsolved mystery: What happened to strapping Amazon explorer Percy Fawcett, last seen in 1925 as he set off in search of the legendary golden city of Z? In a review for the Monitor, Jeremy Kutner wrote, "In the gripping The Lost City of Z, Grann toggles between a biographic portrait of the near-mythic figure of Fawcett and his own modern-day attempt to reconstruct the ill-fated expedition."

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