Part Two: Percy Fawcett: Real-Life Indiana Jones, or Deluded Psychic Racist?
Robert and Miriam return to their series on Percy Fawcett, the real-life 'gentleman adventurer' who inspired Indiana Jones but was far more unhinged than the myth suggests. Fawcett wasn’t just a boundary surveyor—he was a spiritualist, a theosophist, and a self-mythologizing crank obsessed
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