Fawcett could never take the final leap of a modern anthropologist and accept that complex civilizations were capable of springing up independently of each other.

“Many accidents happen to white people because they don't believe their dreams.”

“They marched like madmen from place to place, until overcome by exhaustion and …”

“...much of the discovery of the world was based on failure rather than on succe…”

“Fawcett agreed that El Dorado, with its plethora of gold, was an “exaggerated r…”