Preston, Douglas J.

The Lost City of the Monkey God / Douglas Preston - First edition. - New York : Grand Central Publishing , 2017 - 326 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Are Orphans.

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.


English.

9781455540006


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---Antiquities


Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)---Description and travel
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)---Discovery and exploration
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)---Antiquities

F1509.M9 / P74 2017

972.85 PRE