I am a sucker for stories of lost expeditions and incredible stories of survival. These are some of my favorites:
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Another expedition that caught my attention 50+ years ago was a book [
www.amazon.com] about an explorer that went looking for El Dorado in the upper Amazon. IIRC he did find gold and managed to pack out about 50 lbs. He mentioned a water fall that he expected to contain a huge gold deposit in the pool at the base. Unfortunately he never returned from the second expedition.
"The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long before the world runs out of oil"
-- Sheikh Zaki Yamani
