
The Lost City of the Monkey God
New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.
Format: Large Print
Description: viii, 440 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Recounts 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.
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 that 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.
Large type books.
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.
Large type books.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Description and travel.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Discovery and exploration.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities.
ISBN:
9781455569410
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-435).