
The Lost City of the Monkey God
A True Story
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: viii, 326 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"-- Provided by publisher.
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 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 Became Orphans.
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.
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:
9781455540006 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index.