Episode · The Joe Rogan Experience · 2025-05-28
Books mentioned on #2328 - Luke Caverns
Luke Caverns is an explorer-anthropologist and YouTuber.
Luke Caverns recommended Exploration Fawcett by Percy Fawcett, and discussed The Lost City of Z by David Grann and Fingerprints of the gods by Graham Hancock.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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The Lost City of Z
The Lost City of Z by David Grann is a gripping non-fiction historical account detailing the ill-fated expeditions of British explorer Percy Fawcett into the Amazon rainforest.
Discussed“and we watched the movie The Lost City of Z about Percy Faucet and something about that guy's journey reminded me so much of my family”
Where to get it
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Exploration Fawcett
Exploration Fawcett by Percy Fawcett is a biographical account detailing the perilous Amazonian expeditions of the British explorer.
Recommended“I was reading uh yesterday I was reading uh uh exploration faucet. Have you ever read this before? Listen to the audio book. It it's his Percy Percy Faucets personal diary. Yeah. So, you have uh you have you can there's an audio book of that.”
Where to get it
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Fingerprints of the gods
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock is an alternative history bestseller that argues an advanced, forgotten global civilization was wiped out by a cataclysm at the end of the last ice age.
Discussed“And you know whenever I um you know so so growing up I mean gosh I read Fingerprints of the Gods when I was 16. I remember like sitting on the couch after school and reading it and my dad's like comes up to me he's like that's a big book and I go I know it's like I'm reading”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“Like if you were to look up if you were to go to some bookstore, there's there's a popular one called The Sons of Coronado. And it's like this legacy of people looking for Spanish gold. Somewhere in there, my family will will be in there.”