241 In 1937: Ibid., pp. 17-18.
241 “In his dual nature”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, epilogue to Exploration Fawcett, p. 301.
241 “not only to learn”: Moennich, Pioneering for Christ in Xingu Jungles, pp. 124-26.
241 “perhaps the most famous”: New York Times, Jan. 6, 1935.
241 a “freak”: “The ‘Grandson,' ” Time, Jan. 24, 1944.
241 “matters are rather”: Hinks to Morel, Feb. 16, 1944, RGS.
242 When they examined: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 123.
242 “living specimens”: Marsh, “Blond Indians of the Darien Jungle,” p. 483.
242 “They are golden”: Los Angeles Times, June 15, 1924.
242 “Feel the girl's neck”: New York Times, July 9, 1924.
242 “relic of the Paleolithic”: New York Times, July 7, 1924.
242 “closer to nature”: Washington Post, Oct. 16, 1924.
243 “no home”: Nina Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 6, 1946, Fawcett Family Papers.
243 “You've been”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, Dec. 5, 1933, Fawcett Family Papers.
243 “it means certain”: Everild Young to Colonel Kirwan, Sept. 24, 1946, RGS.
249 “The whole”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Proposal for a S. American Expedition” (proposal), April 4, 1924, RGS.
249 “There is reason”: Dyott, Manhunting in the Jungle, p. 224.
250 “Everywhere he went”: Villas Boas and Villas Boas, Xingu, p. 165.
252 “Up that way”: In 1998, Vajuvi told a similar story to the British adventurer Benedict Allen, who made a film about his journey for the BBC entitled The Bones of Colonel Fawcett.
253 “The upper jaw”: “Report on the Human Remains from Brazil,” 1951, RAI.
255 “One of them”: Basso, Last Cannibals, pp. 78-86.
256 “Are you alive”: Esther Windust to Nina Fawcett, Oct. 10, 1928, PHFP.
256 “We shall see”: Mrs. Mullins to Nina Fawcett, Feb. 9, 1928, Fawcett Family Papers.
256 “Her life flows”: Edward Douglas Fawcett to Arthur R. Hinks, 1933.
257 Toward the end: Reeves, Recollections of a Geographer, pp. 198-99. 257 In the early 1940s: Leal, Coronel Fawcett, pp. 213-15.
257 In 1949: Cummins, Fate of Colonel Fawcett, p. 143.
257 “ Pain-stop pain”: Ibid., p. 58.
257 “The voices and sounds”: Ibid., p. 111.
257 “I really don't”: Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers.
257 “Have you really”: Nina Fawcett to Joan, April 22, 1942, Fawcett Family Papers.
257 “In a way”: Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers.
258 “The time has come”: Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 124.
258 “wild, despairing”: Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers. 258 “the pathetic relics”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, introduction to Exploration Fawcett, p. xiii.
258 “I feel that”: Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers.
258 “on his expeditions”: Fawcett, introduction to Exploration Fawcett, p. xiii.
258 “Daddy seems very”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, April 1, 1951, Fawcett Family Papers.
258 “It really is”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, May 15, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.
258 “I simply couldn't”: Nina Fawcett to Joan, Dec. 14, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.
259 Brian and Joan: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 20. 259 “sacrificed”: Ibid.
259 “without satisfying”: Brian Fawcett to Sir Geoffrey Thompson, May 20, 1955, FO 371/114106, TNA. 259 “just as mad”: Thompson to I. F. S. Vincent, May 19, 1955, FO 371/114106, TNA.
259 “But… but”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 217.
260 “Fate must surely”: Ibid., p. 284. 260 “That looks like”: Ibid., p. 245.
260 “The whole romantic”: Ibid., p. 301.
260 “I do not assume”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Memorandum Regarding the Region of South America Which It Is Intended to Explore” (proposal), 1919, RGS. 260 “the cradle of”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 299.
260 “the time”: “The Occult Interests of Col. P. H. Fawcett,” n.d., n.p., PHFP.
260 “Was Daddy's whole”: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 7.
260 “an objective that”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 301.
260 “Those whom the Gods”: Fawcett to Windust, March 5, 1923, PHFP.
261 One sect, called: Details about the sect come from Leal, Coronel Fawcett, and my interviews.
263 “I was all she had”: Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 307.
264 “My story is lost”: Cummins, Fate of Colonel Fawcett, p. 43.
265 “throwing away”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 301.
271 “very little scratching”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Memorandum Regarding the Region of South America Which It Is Intended to Explore” (proposal), 1919, RGS.
273 Heckenberger has helped: For further information on Heckenberger's discoveries, see The Ecology of Power.
273 Other scientists: My descriptions of the revolution in archaeology in the Amazon come from my interviews with many of the anthropologists and other scientists who are or were working in the field, including William Denevan, Clark Erickson, Susanna Hecht, Michael Heckenberger, Eduardo Neves, James Petersen, Anna Roosevelt, and Neil Whitehead. My information is also derived from many of these and other scholars' published research. See, for instance, “Secrets of the Forest” and Moundbuilders of the Amazon, by Roosevelt; “The Timing of Terra Preta Formation in the Central Amazon,” by Neves; and Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology, edited by Balée and Erickson. For a general survey of the latest scientific developments that are overturning so much of what was once believed about the Americas before Columbus, see Mann's 1491.
274 Some archaeologists now: A team of archaeologists claims that at a site in Monte Verde, Chile, there are indications of human presence from more than thirty-two thousand years ago, which, if true, would further shatter the traditional theory of how and when the Americas were first settled.
275 “no mirage”: Roosevelt, “Secrets of the Forest,” p. 26.
275 “With some caveats”: Interview with author.