![]() ![]() The next 20 years involved garrison duty in Ceylon and postings in Malta and England. Percy Fawcett joined the army immediately after school, with a commission in the artillery in 1886. Had the advertisement been about a soap powder, it would fall foul of the Trade Descriptions Act. It is an insult to the huge roster of true explorers. Calling him one of our greatest explorers is like calling Eddie the Eagle one of our greatest sportsmen. Greatest explorer? Fawcett? He was a surveyor who never discovered anything, a nutter, a racist, and so incompetent that the only expedition he organised was a five-week disaster. ![]() The new film The Lost City of Z is being advertised as based on the true story of one of Britain’s greatest explorers. 3: John Hemming on why Percy Fawcett wasn’t the great explorer of Hollywood myth: ![]() We’re closing 2017 by republishing our twelve most-read articles of the year. ![]()
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