David Grann
has been a guest of The Colbert Report
and got nailed in the process

March 17, 2009 NailingEdit

• book: "The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon"

• is looking for the Lost City of Z
  • Stephen will ask him the lost reason of Y

• fascinating story
• he went to the amazon
  • followed the adventures of Percy Fawcett, a great Victorian explorer, Amazon 1906 (before Hollywood)
    • size of the United States

• Stephen has no idea what's in Ohio

• took 20 men with him half his party would die
  • did this for 20 years

• when he began he was only mapping the area
  • didn't know Peru, Brazil or

• his oldest son and his son's best friend
  • sent out dispatches via Indian runners (Early 20th Century twittering)

• he didn't find it

• after 5 months, he vanished

• next 80 years people would search for him
  • they also died, malaria starvation, also got lost

• has eye problems, fear of snakes
  • could have found it but didn't see it

• Brad Pitt will star in it
  • will not play Grann, but Fawcett

• to give Colbert a monkey necklace/crown
  • from the Kalapalos Indians