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I think the movie “Up” was about Fawcett.
Any Freeper who enjoys true-life adventure tales would do well to get a copy of “Lost Trails, Lost Cities.” The book is taken from P.H. Fawcett’s notes which were edited by his son, Brian Fawcett. One of my all-time favorites.
I swear it isn’t my fault, I left the city right where it was, I didn’t lose it.
/ bad joke.
There’s some interesting radar overhead images of the Amazon junle showing large overgrown cities, erthworks, etc.
Just wish I could recall what website I was on when I saw them!
Kewl !!!
Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun.
Fawcett, Shakleford, John Ross and John Franklin were much of the same mold—adverturers with a desire to discover fame and fortune via exploration of the Earth’s harshest terrrains.
Here is a famous ballad called Lady Franklin’s Lament
We were homeward bound one night on the deep
Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep
I dreamed a dream and I thought it true
Concerning Franklin and his gallant crew
With a hundred seamen he sailed away
To the frozen ocean in the month of May
To seek a passage around the pole
Where we poor sailors do sometimes go.
Through cruel hardships they vainly strove
Their ships on mountains of ice were drove
Only the Eskimo with his skin canoe
Was the only one that ever came through
In Baffin’s Bay where the whale fish blow
The fate of Franklin no man may know
The fate of Franklin no tongue can tell
Lord Franklin with his sailors do dwell
And now my burden it gives me pain
For my long-lost Franklin I would cross the main
Ten thousand pounds I would freely give
To know on earth, that my Franklin do live.
(alternate: To know Lord Franklin and where he is.)
Category: British folk songs
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