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. 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. Using a space-age technology that could map terrain under the densest jungle canopy, that flight revealed tantalizing evidence of not just a city but an entire lost civilization. In 2012, Douglas Preston joined a team of scientists on their quest to find the White City, climbing aboard a rickety plane whose historic flight would change everything. #1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestsellerįor five hundred years, legends have told of an ancient, lost city hidden in the Honduran rainforest-a place so sacred that those who dared disturb it would fall ill and die.
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