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Overview
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 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, 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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781455540006 |
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Publisher: | Grand Central Publishing |
Publication date: | 01/03/2017 |
Pages: | 336 |
Sales rank: | 569,234 |
Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.30(d) |
About the Author

Readers can sign up for The Pendergast File, a monthly "strangely entertaining note" from the authors, at their website, www.PrestonChild.com. The authors welcome visitors to their alarmingly active Facebook page, where they post regularly.
Place of Birth:
Cambridge, MassachusettsEducation:
B.A., Pomona College, 1978Website:
http://www.prestonchild.comTable of Contents
1 The Gates of Hell 1
2 Somewhere in the Americas 7
3 The Devil Had Killed Him 11
4 A Land of Cruel Jungles 20
5 One of the Few Remaining Mysteries 26
6 The Heart of Darkness 39
7 The Fish That Swallowed the Whale 52
8 Lasers in the Jungle 60
9 Something That Nobody Had Done 65
10 The Most Dangerous Place on the Planet 74
11 Uncharted Territory 88
12 No Coincidences 105
13 Fer-de-Lance 113
14 Don't Pick the Flowers 124
15 Human Hands 139
16 I'm Going Down 148
17 A Bewitchment Place 160
18 Quagmire 170
19 Controversy 182
20 The Cave of the Glowing Skulls 194
21 The Symbol of Death 211
22 They Came to Wither the Flowers 219
23 White Leprosy 233
24 The National Institutes of Health 249
25 An Isolated Species 259
26 La Ciudad del Jaguar 271
27 We Became Orphans 289
Acknowledgments 303
Sources and Bibliography 305
Index 319
About the Author 327