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The Lost City of the Monkey God, a true story, Douglas Preston

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index

contains biographical information

illustrations

index present

non fiction

The Lost City of the Monkey God

bibliography

966430360

Douglas Preston

a true story

In 1940, Theodore Morde returned from an expedition into the Honduran rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and a story about finding the legendary Lost City of the Monkey God--but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012, Douglas Preston was part of a new attempt to find the city using airplanes and lidarRecounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle

Gates of Hell -- Somewhere in the Americas -- The Devil Had Killed Him -- Land of Cruel Jungles -- One of the Few Remaining Mysteries -- Heart of Darkness -- The Fish That Swallowed the Whale -- Lasers in the Jungle -- Something Nobody Had Done -- 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 -- Cave of the Glowing Skulls -- Symbol of Death -- They Came to Wither the Flowers -- White Leprosy -- National Institutes of Health -- An Isolated Species -- La Ciudad del Jaguar -- We Became Orphans