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The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery.

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.

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The thrillers of Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child "stand head and shoulders above their rivals" (Publishers Weekly). Preston and Child's Relic and The Cabinet of Curiosities were chosen by readers in a National Public Radio poll as being among the one hundred greatest thrillers ever written, and Relic was made into a number‑one box office hit movie. They are coauthors of the famed Pendergast series, and their recent novels include Bloodless, The Scorpion’s Tail, Crooked River, Old Bones, and Verses for the Dead. In addition to his novels, Preston writes about archaeology for the New Yorker and Smithsonian magazines. Child is a Florida resident and former book editor who has published seven novels of his own, including such bestsellers as Full Wolf Moon and Deep Storm.

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 Facebook page, where they post regularly.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grand Central Publishing; Unabridged edition (September 5, 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1478988223
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1478988229
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 1.5 x 5.75 inches

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Douglas Preston is the author of thirty-six books, both fiction and nonfiction, twenty-nine of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with several reaching the number 1 position. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, RELIC, co-authored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie by Paramount Pictures, which launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, is also in production as a film. His latest book, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, tells the true story of the discovery of a prehistoric city in an unexplored valley deep in the Honduran jungle. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards in the US and Europe, including an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Pomona College. He currently serves as president of the Authors Guild, the nation's oldest and largest association of authors and journalists.

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Susan Carter

history and biology buffs dream book

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 19, 2022

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The Lost City of the Monkey God was an extremely good book, it contained true stories of expeditions to the lost city, aka the white city in Honduras. Douglass Preston did a phenomenal job of providing detailed accounts of what happened on the expeditions and what happened after them. Preston writes about Theodore Morde and how he traveled up the Patuca river to find the “location” of the lost city. He did not actually find it due to later expeditions to the same area. The book speaks of the later expeditions as well how they tried to mine the tributaries for gold, the artifacts found and look for surviving temples like the Mayans had left. It was concluded the people of the lost city left in a rush due to extreme amounts of artifacts being found but never a city only mound, which the explorers believe was part of their architecture. I really loved how Preston steered off from the city and to the real danger that explorers faced. It took away the false Indiana Jones persona of archeology. The author talks about the diseases special to the Mosquitia jungle such as Leishmania braziliensis which the crew and author of the book caught while there. It was a little boring toward the middle of the book because I wasn’t sure if we were still looking at an expedition or not before it ended on a high note and then the next chapter was about the Mayans invading and expanding their empire. I loved the biology in this book and the way that Douglass Preston wrote it is extremely well. I was able to almost picture it perfectly in my head. When the author speaks on how Leishmania latches onto sand flies, and then how it enters your bloodstream by being engulfed by white blood cells because they are sent by your body to engulf the parasite and die. However Leishmania wants to be engulfed, it can't become an active internal parasite until your body does the only natural disease prevention. I also loved his description of the snake-decapitation on his trip in the Mosquitia jungle. Preston writes “As its head lashed back and forth, straining to sink its fangs into Woody’s fist, it expelled poison all over the back of his hand, causing his skin to bubble,”. I liked how he wrote about how the jaw unhinged to release the poison and its effect on commander Wood. This was after the first chapter where he laid out almost all the possible dangerous creatures special to the un-inhabited region, another thing I think helped get rid of the false Indiana Jones side of expeditions and archeology. Overall this was a great book and I look forward to reading the rest of it. I recommend it to anyone who likes a bit of a thriller with history to back

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could not put the book down, hepful to have access to ipad etc for researching facts in book also pre covid which makesending spooky

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Mal Warwick

Two books in one, but both are good

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In 2015, an expedition led by an American filmmaker ventured deep into the Honduran rain forest in search of a fabled ancient city known variously as The White City and The Lost City of the Monkey God. The novelist and nonfiction writer Douglas Preston accompanied the expedition on assignment from the National Geographic. He adopted the lengthier name of the long-lost town as the title of his fascinating first-person account of the journey. The book reads like a thriller, but it is, as the subtitle insists, a true story.

Conventional wisdom has it that the only places unexplored by the human race are at the bottom of the oceans and in outer space. However, that’s simply not true. Deep in the jungles of Central America, the Amazon, and sub-Saharan Africa lie extensive stretches of territory that have never been entered by our contemporaries—and, in some cases, perhaps by any human being at all. Gradually in recent years, a combination of 21st-century technology, obsessive explorers, and the public’s insatiable hunger for adventure stories has uncovered “lost civilizations” in some of these places. Less than a decade ago, a nonfiction book by David Grann told the story of one such successful search in The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. Now Douglas Preston relates the 20-year search of another obsessive man who explored the Central American rainforest.

Most of us think of the Maya in connection with that region. This pre-Columbian civilization is one of the most studied societies on the planet. Preston’s book introduces us to another early society in the region contemporaneous with the Maya. Hitherto only the subject of rumor and legend, the people of this society have yet to be assigned a name by archaeologists. Their cities were buried so deeply in the rainforest that no one had set foot in them for five centuries. However, the evidence uncovered by the expedition Preston chronicles in his book establish without doubt that these people existed—and that they were both numerous and accomplished. This is an exciting tale, well-researched and well written.

Roughly speaking, Preston’s book consists of three parts. In the first part, he relates the legend of The Lost City of the Monkey God. Archaeologists had long discounted the tale because most of those who claimed to have been to the city were charlatans. Very few legitimate scientists had ever attempted to find the place, and they all failed.

In the book’s second part, Preston tells the story of the 2015 expedition and its follow-up. What made the new expedition possible was a top-secret technology developed by the US Department of Defense—an advanced form of lidar, a ground-penetrating method similar to radar that permitted the explorers to see evidence of human habitation even under a seemingly impenetrable rainforest. Preston’s description of the technology and its application is engrossing.

Part three explores the probable cause of the sudden disappearance of the lost civilization around 1500: epidemic disease brought by Columbus and those who followed him. An earlier book, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created, by Charles C. Mann, explains how European diseases devastated the people of the New World. Preston refers to later evidence cited by scientists that the advent of the Europeans reduced the population of both continents by some 90 percent.

Preston also explores the broader topic of tropical diseases and their inexorable march northward as a result of climate change. He pays special attention to a potentially fatal parasitic illness called leishmaniasis, which is endemic in the Third World. Every member of the 2015 expedition was exposed to leishmaniasis, and half of them contracted the disease, including Preston himself. Now leishmaniasis has made its way into the United States and is steadily moving to the north as the planet continues to warm.

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Douglas Preston has written 30 novels, four of them in partnership with Lincoln Child, as well as nine nonfiction books other than The Lost City of the Monkey God. He has been writing full-time for 30 years. Preston is perhaps best known as the coauthor of The Monster of Florence, a nonfiction portrayal of the unsolved murders committed by an Italian serial killer. He is the brother of bestselling nonfiction author Richard Preston, author of The Hot Zone and other books.

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McEyre

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 16, 2022

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A well-written account of an expedition into hostile country. However, for me the book did not really work. The story jumped from place to place and the description of making the finds, and the finds themselves, seemed incidental to the author’s coverage of a raft of other associated topics. While these topics were interesting, they were peripheral to the main theme: the archaeology. The book desperately needed maps and sketches. How you can write a book with a strong geographical content but provide no maps was extraordinary. Even a map showing where Honduras is in the world would have been useful! I also found it strange that there weren’t more photographs of the finds. For instance there were two photographs of a dead snake but only three of the finds. In summary a disappointing read.

Jules

Taking a leaf out of his own adventure novels, ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 29, 2017

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Taking a leaf out of his own adventure novels, the author heads off for real into the Honduran jungle to find a fable lost city from an equally lost past civilisation.

With SAS protection against lawless drug cartels and archaeological thieves, the team find the lost ruins (this is not a spoiler as the trip and discovery have been well documented).

But there the adventure turns sour and many of them experience the very thing which could have caused an entire civilisation to pack up and leave their world. Centuries old issues arise from disturbing the jungle ruins and whilst they don’t dampen the author’s enthusiasm for the tale, the end is a sobering insight into the consequences of history.

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LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD by DOUGLAS PRESTON

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 15, 2017

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Read the book review in the newspaper and got the book. The full account of the discovery of the lost city in Honduras was fascinating. Both mystery, history and adventure and very well written. And a warning to us all from history. Recommend it!

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Paul Lindstrom

Very exciting read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on September 29, 2018

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I knew nothing about the latest development in aerial image detection and analysis, or how it could be used in modern archeology, but this was key to re-discover the abandoned ruins deep in the Honduras jungle. A fascinating, sometimes gruesome story told, which holds a grip on the reader all the way through the book. Highly recommendable!

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Valerie E

Really great read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 13, 2022

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Meticulous detail of the search and circumstances surrounding the expedition, and the aftermath. Exciting adventure story, even though not my usual taste in books.

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