The Lost City of Z (2016)
Directed by James Gray
British officer Percy Fawcett is sent to map the Bolivia–Brazil border in 1906 and returns again and again to the Amazon, between London and the trenches of the Somme, looking for a lost city.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Stag hunt and ball, 1905≈ 00:01:00IrelandStated on screen
Fawcett shoots a stag for Archduke Franz Ferdinand and is snubbed at the ball.
- 2Royal Geographical Society≈ 00:09:00London, EnglandStated on screen
The RGS asks him to survey the disputed Bolivia–Brazil border.
- 3Baron de Gondoris's rubber plantation (fictional)≈ 00:18:00Stated on screenFictional
With Costin he reaches a rubber baron's plantation, where an opera plays in the jungle and they are warned off.
- 4Source of the river≈ 00:30:00Source of the Rio Verde, Bolivia–Brazil borderStated on screen
Travelling upriver past attacks, they find the source and pottery that hints at an old civilisation.
- 5Trinity College Library≈ 00:48:00Dublin, IrelandStated on screen
Nina finds a conquistador's account of a city in the jungle.
- 6Second expedition with Murray≈ 00:58:00Bolivian AmazonInferred
- 7The Somme, France≈ 01:25:00Stated on screen
- 8Last expedition, 1923–25≈ 01:45:00Mato Grosso, BrazilInferred
- 9Royal Geographical Society≈ 02:15:00London, EnglandStated on screen
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 30,619 km
- Places
- 8
- Countries
- 5
- Stops
- 9
- Not shown: 20,643 km
- Boat: 9,975 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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