A popular sensation during the booming 1920s was Colonel Percy Fawcett, English explorer who, with his son Jack, tried to find “the Lost Atlantis” in the Brazilian wilderness. They disappeared.

In the first decades of the 20th century, Sir Colonel Percy Fawcett had been acclaimed as one of the last of the great amateur cartographers, travelling to unexplored corners of the globe to fill ...

Colonel Percy Fawcett, who was born in Torquay ... Yearning for adventure, in 1906 he was sent to South America to survey in Brazil where he befriended local chiefs and tribal leaders.

Colonel Percy Fawcett, who was born in Torquay ... Yearning for adventure, in 1906 he was sent to South America to survey in Brazil where he befriended local chiefs and tribal leaders. He served in ...