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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Preston, Douglas J.     Subjects     Preston, Douglas J. -- Travel -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)     Extinct cities -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)     Cities and towns, Ancient -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)     Indians of Central America -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities.     Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Description and travel.     Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Discovery and exploration.     Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Preston, Douglas J.       by title:      The Lost City of the...       by call number:      LP 972.85 P937L     Search the Web     Preston, Douglas J.     Preston, Douglas J. -- Travel -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)     Extinct cities -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)     Cities and towns, Ancient -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)     Indians of Central America -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities.     Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Description and travel.     Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Discovery and exploration.     Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities.       MARC Display

The Lost City of the Monkey God : a true story / Douglas Preston. by Preston, Douglas J. Grand Central Publishing, 2017. Call #: LP 972.85 P937L Subjects Preston, Douglas J. -- Travel -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)   Extinct cities -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)   Cities and towns, Ancient -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)   Indians of Central America -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities.   Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Description and travel.   Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Discovery and exploration.   Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities. ISBN:  9781455569410 (hc.) Alternate title:  City of the Monkey God : a true story Edition:  Large print edition. Description:  440 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-435). Contents:  The gates of hell -- Somewhere in the Americas -- The Devil had killed him -- A land of cruel jungles -- One of the few remaining mysteries -- The heart of darkness -- The fish that swallowed the whale -- Lasers in the jungle -- Something that nobody had done -- The most dangerous place on the planet -- Uncharted territory -- No coincidences -- Fer-de-lance -- Don't pick the flowers -- Human hands -- I'm going down -- A bewitchment place -- Quagmire -- Controversy -- The cave of the glowing skulls -- The symbol of death -- They came to wither the flowers -- White leprosy -- The National Institutes of Health -- An isolated species -- La ciudad del jaguar -- We are orphans. Summary:  "Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God - but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, they battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Douglas Preston is the author of 35 books, both fiction and nonfiction. Before becoming a writer he worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and was managing editor of CURATOR magazine. His first novel Relic launched the Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book is The Monster of Florence."--Provided by publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 972.85 P937L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Large Print Nonfiction LP 972.85 P937L Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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