Instead, the terrain looked like Nebraska—perpetual plains that faded into the horizon. When I asked Taukane where the forest was, he said, simply, “Gone.

“You know, I had a lot of romantic notions about the jungle and this kind of fin…”

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

“Exploration...no longer seemed aimed at some outward discovery; rather, it was …”

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