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Bolivia had just sold its rubber-rich province in that area to Brazil, and the RGS had been hired as an independent third party, free of local political sway.
At age 39, his position with the RGS led him to Brazil to map the jungle region at the border of Bolivia and Brazil. Like his father, Percy was part of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), having joined to study surveying and cartography (mapmaking). The author would later use some of Fawcett's Amazonian field reports as research to inspire his novel The Lost World, which focuses on an expedition to a plateau in the Amazon basin where prehistoric animals, including dinosaurs, still exist. He served for the war office on Spike Island, County Cork, Ireland from 1903 to 1906, and it was around that time that Fawcett became friends with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the famed author of Sherlock Holmes. It was common for the British Secret Service to recruit members of the Royal Geographic Society, since their roles as map makers/explorers often provided the perfect cover. In the early 1900s, Fawcett was recruited to work for the British Secret Service as a spy in North Africa. However, it has been said that his macho adventures were at least part of the inspiration for the Harrison Ford character. Yes, but he was more like Indiana Jones than James Bond, and comparing him to the former is even certainly a stretch. Had Percy Fawcett really been a member of the British Secret Service?
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