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Ambition Quotes in The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon

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Quote #10

When I told Paulo, he gave me a quizzical look—it meant heading to the very place where James Lynch and his men had been kidnapped in 1996. (25.25)

Grann's wish to find Fawcett, Z, or both leads him to make some iffy decisions. It's easy to see how ambition can cloud a person's judgment. If this were fiction, we'd worry about Grann making it out of this thing alive.