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	The Mystery of Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett
		Fawcett's actual intention, which Fawcett named 'The Great Scheme', was however to set up a colony of spiritually-inclined settlers in Amazonia, where his wife Nina and his closest friend Harold Large, a member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, had every intention of joining him.
		Brian writes that, "through babyhood, the breaking waves sang their nocturne to her, till as a young child she went to her father's native Scotland to be educated." After her education she returned to Ceylon and a life of privilege.
		Fawcett wrote, "A remarkable feature about the boy, not shared by his brother or sister, is a slight obliquity of his eyes." On the family's return from the military hospital at Colombo, crowds lined the route venerating the newborn.
	www.fawcettsamazonia.co.uk /program.htm (1475 words)

	Colonel Fawcett
		Nina Fawcett's optimism was no doubt reinforced by the claim that she received telepathic messages from her husband as late as 1934.
		Fawcett's son Jack, he was told, had broken one of the tribe's taboos, the penalty for which was death, and Fawcett died in his defense.
		Brian used the more adventurous bits of his father's notes and wove them into a very entertaining and memorable 'autobiography.' The really crucial material he saved in a old trunk for posterity...
	www.catchpenny.org /fawcett.html (3369 words)

	Percy Fawcett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fawcett was born 1867 in Torquay, Devon, England to Edward B. and Myra Fawcett.
		Fawcett's first expedition to South America was in 1906 when he travelled to Brazil to map a jungle area at the border of Brazil and Bolivia at the behest of the Royal Geographic Society; the society had been commissioned to map the area as a third party, unbiased by local national interests.
		Fawcett had studied ancient legends and historical records and become convinced that there was a lost city somewhere in the Mato Grosso region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Percy_Fawcett (956 words)

	An important note - The Great Web of Percy Harrison Fawcett
		Film and TV would not want the Fawcett story without a large fictitious dose of sex and violence added and the mystical element would not be considered good "box office".
		Brian Fawcett was very careful when writing his best selling work "Exploration Fawcett" to leave out eighty percent of the real facts.
		Brian used the more adventurous bits of his father's notes and wove them into a very entertaining and memorable "autobiography".
	www.phfawcettsweb.org /misha1.htm (622 words)

	Talking about Collaboration
		I like the way that Fawcett's piece works in the two notions inherent to the series as a whole, of "sex as the great mystery," and the fact that no one knows anything in their twenties (presuming we learn anything later on).
		Fawcett's "sex at 45," for example, is a series of over a dozen unpublished poems under the umbrella title, including the title poem.
		Fawcett's poems in his "sex at 45" series are punctuated by moments of casual wisdom within the bulk of larger poems, as these two fragments from the inside of the title poem, "sex at 45," writing:
	www.poetics.ca /poetics04/04sexat31.html (2420 words)

	100 Canadian Poets - Brian Fawcett - Profile
		Brian Fawcett was born in Prince George, B.C., Canada in 1944 and grew up there.
		He is a past editor of Books in Canada, a former columnist for the Globe & Mail, chairman of the Writers Union of Canada Charter 94 Committee and has written articles and reviews for most of Canada’s major newspapers and magazines.
		"Brian Fawcett: Poet's world is one of mules and barbarians." Vancouver Sun 13 May 1983: InsL5.
	www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/poet/b_fawcett.htm (417 words)

	Dooney's Cafe :: a news service
		Max Fawcett explains why, when the balloting is over, the Liberals should pick Stephane Dion as the next leader of their party.
		Brian Fawcett spends a few days in Vancouver, and finds it troubling, a city filled with angry people and beautiful things.
		Brian Fawcett has a review of one of Vancouver's better sushi joints, and a good story to tell about why it has survived in a poor location for more than 20 years.
	www.dooneyscafe.com (243 words)

	Explorer Colonel Percy Fawcett Disappeared Upriver Mato Grosso Of This Beautiful Place.
		The Fawcett party was not the formal enemy or ally of the enemy so after being killed in a paranoid flare up they would not have been eaten but left where they lay or buried like their own tribal members.
		As it became feared the Fawcett party had met with trouble Nina Fawcett at home the wife of the Colonel began to speak of the ideal community he was seeking and soon he would send for her.
		Leaving the Camarada in the Kulusev river region the Fawcett group began their explorations and at some point camped not far from an indian camp probably for recuperation of the two younger members as the indians noted the colonel was in good shape but the young men were limping.
	www.nylicsocialworkeramazonas.com /id28.html (7898 words)

	Colonel Fawcett
		The effort put forth on the teacher's part was epic and it availed much: my interest in ancient civilizations was thus piqued, and I was to think of Fawcett's adventures often.
		In this chronicle, consisting of letters, manuscripts, and other records compiled by his son, Brian, the Colonel detailed his adventures in Mato Grosso, South America, as he searched for the ruins of an ancient lost city ("I call it 'Z' for the sake of convenience," he wrote) between 1906 and 1925.
		Brian Fawcett also heard various tales containing details concerning his father's disappearance.
	home.earthlink.net /~larryorcutt/fawcett.html (3485 words)

	Review of two Brian Fawcett Books
		The interesting writer is Brian Fawcett, the country is Canada, and the subject matter is, obviously, sex.
		Fawcett is no Pangloss: he clearly sees and describes the nature of the very real threats confronting our (for want of a better word) civilization.
		Where my own encounters with bureaucracy have frequently led me to despair, Fawcett has maintained his optimism despite having worked as an urban planner (there are several pieces here on architecture) and even in a prison (as a writing teacher).
	members.aol.com /vlorbik/tenpage/fawcett.html (871 words)

	ABCBookWorld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Fawcett recalls the gist of his explanation to Strickland as to why he has been fascinated with explorer Alexander Mackenzie and why he’s on his own exploratory, intellectual mission in a chapter called Alexander Mackenzie’s Supermarket.
		Brian Fawcett’s The Secret Journal of Alexander Mackenzie and Other Stories (Talonbooks) first examined in fiction the exploitation of B.C.’s hinterlands and identified the ‘global village’ invasion in psychological and economic terms back in 1985.
		Fawcett recalls the gist of his explanation to Strickland as to why he has been fascinated with explorer Alexander Mackenzie and why he's on his own exploratory, intellectual mission in a chapter called Alexander Mackenzie's Supermaket.
	www.abcbookworld.com /?state=view_author&author_id=1626 (4021 words)

	Amazon.ca: Compact Garden P 20437 [Op]: Books: Brian Fawcett (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)*
		It looks like any other picturesque gardening primer, but Brian Fawcett's The Compact Garden is a book with attitude.
		Garden design is not emphasized, and since Fawcett's experience is mainly in British Columbia, not all of it will be applicable to the United States.
		Brian Fawcett is quite witty as he details past successes and disasters of his own and his friends gardens, and you will get a taste of his progressive philosophies particularly when it comes to urban gardening, and just what it means to be a gardener.
	www.amazon.ca /Compact-Garden-P-20437-Op/dp/0921820437 (543 words)

	Arts and Culture
		Fawcett spends most of his time writing, he also enjoys making tomato sauce with his Italian neighbours and working for various noble causes.
		(He is currently living in Toronto, where, Brian reports, they can actually still grow tomatoes.) He says that SFU not only provided his formal education, but also a good portion of his practical education too.
		Conceptual Artist & Photographer Along with practicing his artistry, Ken is a professor at UBC and the editor-in-chief of an academic journal.
	www.sfu.ca /~extrel/sfualumni/our_alumni/outstanding/Arts.html (272 words)

	Publisher-supplied biographical information about contributor(s) for Library of Congress control number 2002391105 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett was born in 1867 in Devon, England.
		At the age of nineteen he was given a commission in the Royal Artillery.
		Fawcett found himself bored with Army life and learned the art of surveying, hoping to land a more interesting job.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/bios/orion051/2002391105.html (202 words)

	NOW Magazine Online Edition: Apr 16 - 22, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It took 30 years of rooting around for the subject that could unleash the storm of emotion that's been boiling inside his being.
		He's written about cities, gender, the art of citizenship and Alexander Mackenzie, the trader who opened up the passage to what is now Prince George, Fawcett's hometown.The last project triggered the idea for a full study of Prince George.
		The key influence on the life and, as he observes, death of the town is a mammoth clear-cut so big it can be seen, as the compromised locals like to boast, from outer space.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2003-04-16/books_reviews_p.html (249 words)

	alien words (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In 1956 a new twist came into the story with Dr. Henrique de Souse, president of the Succeeded de Teosofica Brasilia (Theosophical Society of Brazil) stating the receipt of a letter which said that Col. Fawcett was still alive and "living in a subterranean city in the Sera do Roncador in Matt Gross".
		The story of this stage play is based on the life, the work, and the adventures of the legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett within a region of the 'Darkest Continent' South America, as he himself named it.
		A territory that he spent the last 19 years of his life starting from 1906, the year that he accepted the work of border delimitation between Bolivia, Peru and Brazil, a work that was offered to him by Sir George Taubman Goldie, President of the Royal Geographical Society.
	oasis.fortunecity.com /aspen/205/alien.htm (1305 words)

	Alumni Abroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The family Fawcett: (left to right) Brian, Kelly, Tyler, and Amy
		Brian Fawcett earned the B.S. in finance from UT Chattanooga in 1987.
		Amy Fawcett graduated with the B.S. in accounting in 1982.
	pr.utk.edu /alumnus/spring97/alabroad.html (644 words)

	You Did What? By Bill Fawcett & Brian Thomsen
		Bill Fawcett and Brian Thomsen set out to prove history can be funny and succeed in "You Did What?
		Mad Plans and Great Historical Disasters." Tackling every subject from the Trojan Horse to the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton, to the introduction of New Coke, they managed to bring a smile to history.
		It's a fun mixture of pop-culture and history, guaranteed to keep you interested and feeling a bit superior - after all, none of us would ever make a mistake like that.
	www.myshelf.com /history/04/youdidwhat.htm (254 words)

	Brian Fawcett Hull based specialist covering all aspects of joinery
		Brian Fawcett Hull based specialist covering all aspects of joinery
		Brian Fawcett Joinery is a family run business established since 1971.We provide a quality joinery service to East Yorkshire.
		Rapidly attaining a reputation for high quality and craftsmanship Brian Fawcett Joinery Service moved on from strength to strength to the bespoke, high quality personal service offered today.
	www.scoot.co.uk /213277999 (355 words)

	MavicaNET - Fawcett, Percy Harrison (1867-1925?) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Exploration Fawcett by Percy Harrison Fawcett, Brian Fawcett (Illustrator) (Paperback - November 2001)
		The mystic and legendary British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcett disappeared in the unknown and unexplored territory of Brazil's Mato Grosso in 1925.
		For 10 years, he had wandered the forests and death-filled rivers in search of a "lost" cities; convinced he knew the location of one, he headed off for the last time--never to be heard from again.
	www.mavicanet.com /lite/por/35527.html (218 words)

	30. Working Titles - Vancouver International Writers Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Brian Fawcett laments the fate of his native Prince George following the clearcutting of 530 hectares of forest.
		His non-fiction book Virtual Clearcut is receiving applause for its incisive and often witty commentary.
		Ruth Ozeki takes on enviro-politics from the fictional side, telling the tale of an Idaho seed farmer's fight against "Frankenfoods." Can this kind of writing make a difference to decision-makers?
	www.writersfest.bc.ca /2003festival/events.php?event=30 (63 words)

	PRIDE AND CONCEIT by Dr. Elizabeth Ashby Brian Fawcett Bodhi Leaves No. B. 14 BUDDHIST PUB
		PRIDE AND CONCEIT by Dr. Elizabeth Ashby Brian Fawcett Bodhi Leaves No. B.
		* * * * * * * * THE MASTERY OF PRIDE By Brian Fawcett Few of us are free from Pride in one form or another.
		We know that in the interests of spiritual development it must be killed out.
	www.skepticfiles.org /mys1/pride.htm (3922 words)

	Fawcett - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fawcett, Brian (born 1944), Canadian poet and novelist
		Fawcett, Quinn, pen name of a pair of authors, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Bill Fawcett
		This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fawcett (86 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This has been a shock to us all as Brian is not yet fifty, and we can only send our best wishes to Brian, his wife Kath, and their 10 year old son, Peter.
		The thought of losing a fine friend and a man of such incredible talent is quite distressing.
		A coronary is of course extremely debilitating, both mentally and physically, and I want to see Brian up and well enough to carry on with his fine work.
	smmlonline.com /archives/VOL0714.txt (3087 words)

	Brian Fawcett- Vancouver International Writers Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Brian Fawcett is the author of more than a dozen books, including Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow, The Secret Journals of Alexander Mackenzie, and Gender Wars: A Novel and Some Conversations About Sex and Gender.
		He is past editor of Books in Canada, a former columnist for The Globe and Mail and currently edits the popular Internet news service dooneyscafe.com.
		His latest book, Virtual Clearcut, explores the devastating impact of globalization on his hometown of Prince George, BC.
	www.writersfest.bc.ca /2003festival/author.php?author=23 (83 words)

	The Parliamentary Poet Laureate - Poem of the Week (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As a poet, then a fiction writer, and now as an investigative prose writer, Brian Fawcett has always sustained both an aesthetic of accuracy and a determination to roast social idiocy.
		His new work is found at the online journal, Dooney's Café.
		100 Canadian Poets: Brian Fawcett - Profile (University of Calgary)
	www.parl.gc.ca /Information/about/people/poet/poem-of-the-week/poets-e.htm?param=31 (75 words)

	Stories, Listed by Author
		FAWCETT, BILL; [i.e., William Brian Fawcett] (1947-) (books)
		FAWCETT, MAHLON L. I Read Stephen King (with James Van Hise), (cs) Midnight Graffiti Spr 1989
		FAWCETT, RICHARD H. And the Dutchman Docked at Rotterdam, (vi) Fantasy and Terror #2 1984
	www.locusmag.com /index/s264.html (1591 words)

	NOW: Life of Brian, Apr 16 - 22, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		NOW: Life of Brian, Apr 16 - 22, 2003
		Video and digital art has a strong footing at the Images festival
		BY SUSAN G. by Brian Fawcett (Thomas Allen), 320 pages, $36.95 cloth.
	www.nowtoronto.com /issues/2003-04-16/books_reviews.php (356 words)

	Waterstone of the Wild
		(EXPLORATION FAWCETT, Brian Fawcett, The Companion Book Club, London, 1954:317-318).
		EXPLORATION FAWCETT II "Talking of birds, all through the Peruvian and Bolivian Montaña is to be found a small bird like a kingfisher, which makes its nest in neat round holes in the rocky escarpments above the river.
		These holes can plainly be seen, but are not usually accessible, and strangely enough they are found only where the birds are present.
	www.spirasolaris.ca /waterstone.html (1374 words)

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