02905cam a2200373 i 4500 339180329 TxAuBib 20180227120000.0 161115s2017||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u bl2016050924 9781455569410 33.99 1455569410 33.99 eng rda TxAuBib rda Preston, Douglas J, 1956-, (Douglas Jerome.) The lost city of the Monkey God [LARGE PRINT] : a true story / Douglas Preston. Large print edition. New York : Grand Central Publishing Large Print, 2017. viii, 440 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-435). 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 are orphans. Since the days of 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. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012 Preston joined a team of scientists using classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. They found evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization-- and returned carrying a horrifying, sometimes lethal-- and incurable-- disease. 20180227. Preston, Douglas J Travel Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras.) Indians of Central America Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Antiquities. Cities and towns, Ancient Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras.) Extinct cities Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras.) Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Description and travel. Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Discovery and exploration. Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Antiquities. Large print books.