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'Brazil That Never Was' Review: His Own Private Amazon


A British neurologist explores his passionate identification with the reckless adventurer Percy Harrison Fawcett.
British explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett (front right) on the frontier between Brazil and Bolivia in 1908.
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GRANGER
By
Danny Heitman
Dec. 10, 2020 6:29 pm ET
Like the late Oliver Sacks, Andrew Lees is a British neurologist who is also a talented writer of memoir, medical reportage and travelogue. Like Sacks, who died in 2015 at 82, Dr. Lees has made personal eccentricity into something of a cottage industry. A sense of oddness informs Dr. Lees’s books, perhaps even more so than those of Sacks, whose signature volumes, such as “Awakenings” and “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat,” at least tempered their strange sensibility with mass-market appeal. ....

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