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The Lost City of the Monkey God : A True Story by Douglas Preston (2017, Hardcover, Large Type / large print edition)

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The #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes, 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, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking 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, Preston and the team 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. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-10
1455569410
ISBN-13
9781455569410
eBay Product ID (ePID)
224027919

Product Key Features

Book Title
Lost City of the Monkey God : a True Story
Author
Douglas Preston
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Features
Large Type
Topic
Archaeology, Central America, Ancient / General, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), Latin America / Central America, Expeditions & Discoveries
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
448 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz

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Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
F1509.M9p74 2017
Edition Description
Large Type / Large Print Edition
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2016-037247

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The Lost City of the Monkey God : A True Story by Douglas Preston (2017, Hardcover, Large Type / large print edition)

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