IRB Intro Post #1

For our first IRB asignment, I have chosen The Lost City of Z by David Grann. This nonfiction piece tells the story of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who set out to find a fabled civilization in the Amazon Jungle in 1925, but never returned from the deep, dark jungle. David Grann is a staff writer for the New Yorker, a novelist, and has spent a large amount of time as a journalist in Mexico and South America.  The Lost City of Z is a top selling action and adventure novel recommended to me by a friend. From this novel, I  hope to learn about great and dangerous journey Percy Fawcett endured in the Amazon, and become familiar with rhetorical devices and strategies used by nonficion writers to prove their argument to the audience.

Source- telegraph.co.uk

This picture depicts Percy Fawcett talking with a local man in the beginning of his long journey in the Amazon.