Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2026-08-27
Books mentioned on Part Two: Percy Fawcett: Real-Life Indiana Jones, or Deluded Psychic Racist?
Robert concludes the tale of Percy Fawcett by discussing how he came to believe a hidden jungle portal would turn his son into a god (spoiler: they died horribly). See omnystudio.
Robert Evans discussed The Lost City of Z by David Grann.
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“In Gran's book, chapter 8, Into the Amazon, goes straight from Percy returning to England in 1902 to him then being in Bolivia like 6 or seven years later, which is like where the first adventure from the movie The Lost City of uh Z starts too.”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (1) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“During research for the book Brazil that Never Was, author AJ Le happened by chance on a copy of a book titled Tommy, the British soldier on the Western Front. And as he's just doing research on Faucet, he's thumbming through this completely unrelated book and he sees Faucet's name listed in the index and he's like, "Well, I should”