These may have been double-nosed Andean tiger hounds. After a 1913 expedition, Fawcett supposedly claimed to have seen dogs with double noses. In 1911, Fawcett once again left his home and family to return to the Amazon and chart hundreds of miles of unexplored jungle, accompanied by his trusted, longtime exploring companion, Henry Costin, and biologist and polar explorer James Murray. In 1908 he traced the source of the Rio Verde (Brazil) and in 1910 made a journey to Heath River (on the border between Bolivia and Peru) to find its source, having retired from the British Army on 19 January. He was mostly amicable with the locals through gifts, patience, and courteous behaviour. įawcett made seven expeditions between 19. He reported other mysterious animals unknown to zoology, such as a small cat-like dog about the size of a foxhound, which he claimed to have seen twice, and the giant Apazauca spider, which was said to have poisoned a number of locals. While on the expedition in 1907, he claimed to have seen and shot a 62-foot (19 m) long giant anaconda, a claim for which he was ridiculed by scientists. The RGS had been commissioned to map the area as a third party unbiased by local national interests. Early expeditions įawcett's first expedition to South America was in 1906 (he was seconded for service there on 2 May ) the RGS sent him to Brazil to map a jungle area at the border with Bolivia.
He became friends with authors Sir Henry Rider Haggard and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle the latter used Fawcett's Amazonian field reports as inspiration for his novel The Lost World. He served for the War Office on Spike Island in County Cork from 1903 to 1906, where he was promoted to major on 11 January 1905. Later, he worked for the British Secret Service in North Africa while pursuing the surveyor's craft. įawcett joined the RGS in 1901 with the aim of studying surveying and mapmaking. He later served in Hong Kong, Malta, and Trincomalee, Ceylon. On 13 January 1896, Fawcett was appointed adjutant of the 1st Cornwall (Duke of Cornwall's) Artillery Volunteers, and was promoted to captain on 15 June 1897.
That same year he met his future wife, Nina Agnes Paterson, whom he married in 1901 and had two sons, Jack (1903–1925?) and Brian (1906–1984), and one daughter, Joan (1910–2005).
įawcett attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, as a cadet, and was commissioned as a lieutenant of the Royal Artillery on 24 July 1886.
Fawcett's father, who had been born in India, was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), while his elder brother, Edward Douglas Fawcett (1866–1960), was a mountain climber, an Eastern occultist, and the author of philosophical books and popular adventure novels. Fawcett received his early education at Newton Abbot Proprietary College, alongside the sportsman, journalist and writer Bertram Fletcher Robinson and writer (Sir) Arthur Quiller-Couch. Percy Fawcett was born on 18 August 1867 in Torquay, Devon, England, to Edward Boyd Fawcett and Myra Elizabeth (née MacDougall). Fawcett disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of Jack's friends, Raleigh Rimell) during an expedition to find an ancient lost city which he and others believed existed in the Amazon rainforest. Percy Harrison Fawcett DSO (18 August 1867 – disappeared 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America.
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