Books like The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon
12 books with a reading profile close to The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann. Outward-looking and clear-cut; a moderate read.
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Erik Larson reconstructs the final 1915 voyage of the luxury ocean liner Lusitania, tracking its path from New York toward the Irish coast during the early stages of World War I.
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In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In the winter of 1820, a massive sperm whale repeatedly rammed and sank the whaleship Essex in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
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The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In the early 1940s, the United States government constructed Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a secret city carved out of rural farmland to house seventy thousand residents working on the Manhattan Project.
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The Only Plane in the Sky: An Oral History of 9/11
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Garrett M.
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A Fever in the Heartland: The Ku Klux Klan's Plot to Take Over America, and the Woman Who Stopped Them
by Timothy Egan
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan moved beyond the deep South to establish a stronghold in the American Midwest, specifically Indiana.
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Also outward-looking · history, narrative
In this historical account, Nathaniel Philbrick examines the fifty-year period beginning with the 1620 arrival of the Pilgrims and culminating in the devastation of King Philip’s War.
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The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Erik Larson chronicles the five months between Abraham Lincoln’s election and the surrender of Fort Sumter.
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The Bookseller of Kabul
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Following the fall of the Taliban in 2001, Norwegian journalist Åsne Seierstad lived with the family of Sultan Khan, a bookseller in Kabul who risked imprisonment to preserve Afghan literature.
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Flags of Our Fathers
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
James Bradley reconstructs the lives of the six men who raised the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.
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The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
Jonathan Harr chronicles the recovery of "The Taking of Christ," a Caravaggio masterpiece hidden in the dining room of a Jesuit residence in Dublin for decades.
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The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
by David Grann
Also outward-looking and clear-cut · history, narrative
In 1740, the British vessel HMS Wager departed on a secret mission to intercept a Spanish treasure galleon but wrecked against desolate rocks off the coast of Patagonia.
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The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride
Also clear-cut · history, narrative
Daniel James Brown reconstructs the 1846 Donner Party disaster through the specific experiences of Sarah Graves, a twenty-one-year-old newlywed traveling west from Illinois.
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