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.

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

“It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and ma…”

“Does God think that, because it is raining, I am not going to destroy the world…”

“Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the …”