Displaying 1 of 1 2017 Format: Book Author: Preston, Douglas J., author. Title: The lost city of the Monkey God : a true story / Douglas Preston. Edition: First edition. Publisher, Date: New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017. Description: viii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Summary: 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. Subjects: Preston, Douglas J. -- Travel -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Extinct cities -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Cities and towns, Ancient -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Indigenous peoples -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities. Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Description and travel. Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Discovery and exploration. Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities. Notes: Maps on lining papers. Includes bibliographical references (pages [305]-318) and index. Contents: 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 became orphans. LCCN: 2016037247 ISBN: 9781455540006 9781455540013 (paperback) Other Number: 949143481 System Availability: 9 # System items in: 9 # Local items: 0 # Local items in: 0 Current Holds: 0 Place Request Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Librarian's View Syndetics Unbound Displaying 1 of 1
