The Lost City of the Monkey God

The Lost City of the Monkey God

by Douglas Preston

For five hundred years, legends have told of an ancient, lost city hidden in the Honduran rainforest-- a place so sacred that those who dared disturd it would fall ill and die.

In 2012, Douglas Preston joined a team of scientists on their quest to find the White City, climbing aboard a rickey plane whose historic flight would change everything. Using a space-age technology that could map terrain under the densest jungle canopy, that fligth revealed tanalizing evidence of not just a city but an entire lost civilization. But when the expedition finally reached the ruins, battling torrential rains and venomous snakes in the world's densest jungle, tragedy struck: Preston and others contracted a mysterious--and incurable-- disease.

The Lost City of the Monkey God is the true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century--a story of ancient curses, modern technology, a vanished culture, and a stunning medical mystery.

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