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The Lost City of the Monkey God : a true story  Cover Image Book Book

The Lost City of the Monkey God : a true story / Douglas Preston.

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#1 New York Times bestselling author 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. For 500 years, explorers searched for a cursed "Lost City" deep in the Honduran rainforest. Preston was aboard the historic flight that finally mapped the terrain of an unexplored valley, ringed by impenetrable mountains, using space-age technology. They found not just an ancient city, but a lost civilisation.

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  • ISBN: 9781455540013 (trade paperback) :
  • Physical Description: viii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject: 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.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) > Description and travel.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) > Discovery and exploration.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) > Antiquities.
Genre: Travel > Honduran Rainforest

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DOUGLAS PRESTON worked as a writer and editor for the American Museum of Natural History and taught writing at Princeton University. He has written for The New Yorker, Natural History, National Geographic, Harper's, Smithsonian, and The Atlantic. The author of several acclaimed nonfiction books--including the bestseller The Monster of Florence--Preston is also the co-author with Lincoln Child of the bestselling series of novels featuring FBI agent Pendergast.


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