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258 “The time has come”: Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 124.

258 “wild, despairing”: Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers. 258 “the pathetic relics”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, introduction to Exploration Fawcett, p. xiii.

258 “I feel that”: Brian Fawcett to Joan, Sept. 3, 1945, Fawcett Family Papers.

258 “on his expeditions”: Fawcett, introduction to Exploration Fawcett, p. xiii.

258 “Daddy seems very”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, April 1, 1951, Fawcett Family Papers.

258 “It really is”: Brian Fawcett to Nina, May 15, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.

258 “I simply couldn't”: Nina Fawcett to Joan, Dec. 14, 1952, Fawcett Family Papers.

259 Brian and Joan: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 20. 259 “sacrificed”: Ibid.

259 “without satisfying”: Brian Fawcett to Sir Geoffrey Thompson, May 20, 1955, FO 371/114106, TNA. 259 “just as mad”: Thompson to I. F. S. Vincent, May 19, 1955, FO 371/114106, TNA.

259 “But… but”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 217.

260 “Fate must surely”: Ibid., p. 284. 260 “That looks like”: Ibid., p. 245.

260 “The whole romantic”: Ibid., p. 301.

260 “I do not assume”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Memorandum Regarding the Region of South America Which It Is Intended to Explore” (proposal), 1919, RGS. 260 “the cradle of”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 299.

260 “the time”: “The Occult Interests of Col. P. H. Fawcett,” n.d., n.p., PHFP.

260 “Was Daddy's whole”: Williams, introduction to AmaZonia, p. 7.

260 “an objective that”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 301.

260 “Those whom the Gods”: Fawcett to Windust, March 5, 1923, PHFP.

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261 One sect, called: Details about the sect come from Leal, Coronel Fawcett, and my interviews.

263 “I was all she had”: Brian Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 307.

264 “My story is lost”: Cummins, Fate of Colonel Fawcett, p. 43.

265 “throwing away”: Fawcett, Ruins in the Sky, p. 301.

271 “very little scratching”: Percy Harrison Fawcett, “Memorandum Regarding the Region of South America Which It Is Intended to Explore” (proposal), 1919, RGS.

273 Heckenberger has helped: For further information on Heckenberger's discoveries, see The Ecology of Power.

273 Other scientists: My descriptions of the revolution in archaeology in the Amazon come from my interviews with many of the anthropologists and other scientists who are or were working in the field, including William Denevan, Clark Erickson, Susanna Hecht, Michael Heckenberger, Eduardo Neves, James Petersen, Anna Roosevelt, and Neil Whitehead. My information is also derived from many of these and other scholars' published research. See, for instance, “Secrets of the Forest” and Moundbuilders of the Amazon, by Roosevelt; “The Timing of Terra Preta Formation in the Central Amazon,” by Neves; and Time and Complexity in Historical Ecology, edited by Balee and Erickson. For a general survey of the latest scientific developments that are overturning so much of what was once believed about the Americas before Columbus, see Mann's 1491.

274 Some archaeologists now: A team of archaeologists claims that at a site in Monte Verde, Chile, there are indications of human presence from more than thirty-two thousand years ago, which, if true, would further shatter the traditional theory of how and when the Americas were first settled.

275 “no mirage”: Roosevelt, “Secrets of the Forest,” p. 26.

275 “With some caveats”: Interview with author.

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