260.
36 “it takes something”: From a newspaper article in Fawcett’s scrapbook, Fawcett Family Papers. 36
36 Royal Military Academy at Woolwich: See Guggisberg,
36 “The fashion of torture”: Ibid., p. 57.
36 “to regard the risk”: Hankey,
37 Now, as Fawcett: Details of Sri Lanka in the 1890s come from various books of the time, including Ferguson,
37 “Dear me”: Twain,
38 “I’m afraid”: Fawcett, “Gold Bricks at Badulla,” p. 225.
38 “Did the hound”: Ibid., p. 231.
38 “Ceylon is a very”: Ibid., p. 232.
39 “He obviously did”: Williams, introduction to
39 “the way the ladies”: Quotation from a newspaper article found in Fawcett’s scrap- book, Fawcett Family Papers.
39 “the only one”:
39 “she always had”: Williams, introduction to
40 “I was very happy”:
40 “My life would”: Ibid.
40 “a silly old”: Fawcett to Doyle, March 26, 1919, HRC.
40 “You are not”: Williams, introduction to
40 “It took me”:
40 “Destiny cruelly”: Ibid.
40 “Go… and marry”: Williams, introduction to
40 “begged her to”: My interview with Fawcett’s granddaughter, Rolette.
40 “I thought I had”:
41 “A particularly beautiful”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, letter to the editor,
41 “lone wolf”: Fawcett,
41 Madame Blavatsky: See Meade,
41 “a genius”: Meade,
42 “She weighed more”: Ibid., p. 8.
42 “the most human”: Kelly,
42 “addicted to table-rapping”: Oppenheim,
42 “I suppose I am”: Stashower,
43 “For those who”: Oppenheim,
43 “The ceremony commenced”:
44 “At the very time”: A. N. Wilson,
44 “I transgressed again”: Fawcett, “Passing of Trinco,” p. 116.
44 In the late 1860s: See Stanley,
45 “E. M. Forster once”: Pritchett,
45 “wild-man that eats”: Edward Douglas Fawcett,
45 “most venturesome”: Edward Douglas Fawcett,
46 “possibly thinking”: Ibid., p. 3.
46 “strange ruins”: Ibid., p. 49.
46 “we would-be”: Ibid., p. 146.
46 “I was overcome”: Ibid., p. 195.
46 “He won’t”: Ibid., p. 237.
46 “Everywhere about me”: Fawcett, “Passing of Trinco,” p. 116.
47 “the city has vanished”: Walters,
47 “old Ceylon is”: Fawcett to Esther Windust, March 23, 1924, PHFP.
47 “a geography militant”: Conrad, “Geography and Some Explorers,” p. 6.
49 One person who: Steve Kemper’s 1995 account, “Fawcett’s Wake,” provided to author.
49 For ages, cartographers: Information on the history of maps and geography is drawn largely from Wilford,
50 “with every kind”: Quoted in Brehaut,
50 “I, Prester John”: Quoted in Bergreen,
50 “to the dearest son”: Quoted in De Camp and Ley,
51 “the Discovery of”: Wilford,
51 Finally, in the nineteenth: For information on the history of the RGS, see Mill,
52 “collect, digest”: Mill,
52 “There was not”: Francis Younghusband, in “The Centenary Meeting: Addresses on the History of the Society,”
52 “[It] was composed”: Keltie, “Thirty Years’ Work of the Royal Geographical Society,” p. 350.
53 Richard Burton espoused: For information on Burton, see Kennedy,
53 “I protest vehemently”: Quoted in Farwell,
53 “looked as if a tiger”: Quoted in Lovell,
53 “Explorers are not”: David Attenborough, foreword to Cameron,
