Peter Fleming (1907-1971) was born and educated at Eton and at Christ Church, Oxford. 'Brazilian Adventure' was his first book and was published in 1933 when his own interest in Colonel Fawcett's disappearance was aroused by an advertisement in the Agony Column of 'The Times' asking for two people to join an expedition to Central Brazil. It is an irresistible story of a man's involvement in a venture in the search for Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett's fate.