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 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.
#12563335 in Books 2012-06-17Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .41 x 6.00l; .55 #File Name: 1451012489178 pages
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. No illustrations; darn it!By Rick CookThis is another one of those reprints that is presented without the illustrations that accompanied the original.What's there -- the story of how Hindu numerals became Arabic numerals and were eventually adopted by the West -- is interesting and; unlike some books so crippled; remains quite comprehensible. But it could have used those illustrations.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy J. MuhammadExcellent.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy science_dudeKinda old fashioned but a great read. Explains things well.
