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A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A medical mystery. A journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle and a stunning archaeological discovery.

Since the days of conquistador Hernan Cortes, rumours have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden deep in the Honduran interior. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and warn the legendary city is cursed: to enter it is a death sentence. They call it the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artefacts and an electrifying story of having found the City – but then committed suicide without revealing its location.

Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a single-engine plane carrying a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but a lost civilization.

To confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, plagues of insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. They emerged from the jungle with proof of the legend... and the curse. They had contracted a horrifying, incurable and sometimes lethal disease.

Suspenseful and shocking, filled with history, adventure and dramatic twists of fortune, The Lost City of the Monkey God is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.

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'What reader could resist a new book by Douglas Preston called The Lost City of the Monkey God? Not this reader. Preston's book offers rewards for both the mystery fan and the nonfiction aficionado. The Lost City is addictive-fast-paced and riveting, but it's also important. We mustn't repeat the cataclysmic mistakes of the past. Ironically – as The Lost City illustrates – that's exactly what our short-sighted civilization is doing right now' -- James Patterson

'Preston, at great risk to his own life, has produced a thrilling and powerful adventure story' -- David Grann, The Lost City of Z

'Revelatory, chilling, creepy, and alive with deadly snakes and insects bearing incurable disease, it's high adventure at its best and all true' -- Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City

'Deftly balancing swashbuckling action with thoughtful reflections on conservation and the ethics of archaeology' ― Mail on Sunday, 5 star review

Leaves the reader both impressed and over-awed... An adventure well worth the telling and the 16 pages of colour illustrations add further veracity to the impact' ― Country Life

'A story that moves from thrilling to sobering, fascinating to downright scary - trademark Preston, in other words, and another winner' ― Kirkus Reviews

This gripping book follows every step of the journey... It's incredible enough that in this day and age there are still unexplored areas of the planet' ― Geographical Magazine

'A grippingly told and reassuringly grown-up account of the discovery of an ancient city in Honduras' ― TLS

'Preston at his best. Entirely non-fiction, this reads every bit as excitingly as any of his fiction accounts. Fast paced, thrilling, insightful, with great descriptions of the excitement and dangers of finding a 'lost' city that had not been visited in 500 years. A great account' ― Buzzfeed.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1786695073
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Head of Zeus GB (1 December 2017)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781786695079
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1786695079
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.1 x 2.2 x 20.3 cm

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- 4 in History of Honduras
- 83 in Mythology & Folklore Encyclopaedias
- 359 in Indigenous Peoples Studies

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Douglas Preston is the author of thirty-six books, both fiction and nonfiction, twenty-nine of which have been New York Times bestsellers, with several reaching the number 1 position. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, RELIC, co-authored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie by Paramount Pictures, which launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, THE MONSTER OF FLORENCE, is also in production as a film. His latest book, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD, tells the true story of the discovery of a prehistoric city in an unexplored valley deep in the Honduran jungle. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian. He is the recipient of numerous writing awards in the US and Europe, including an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Pomona College. He currently serves as president of the Authors Guild, the nation's oldest and largest association of authors and journalists.

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Fiona Smith

Exciting & informative

Reviewed in Australia on 29 March 2018

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I love adventure stories & this one has everything. Exciting to the last page & a cautionary tale. Global warming ☹️

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Greg from Australia

Absorbing read about an archaeological expedition in the Honduras jungle

Reviewed in Australia on 4 November 2018

Douglas Preston's book is an account of an expedition that he was the resident journalist on, to find the fabled lost city of Ciudad Blanca in Honduras. Myths have it that the city was abandoned and a curse placed on it by a monkey god.

Preston writes about past efforts - some more genuine than others - to locate Ciudad Blanca and then describes how modern military technology was used to conduct an aerial search of impenetrable jungle, which revealed the likely presence of some major Mesoamerican construction sites. Preston then formed part of the expedition that flew in to get a better look at what they had seen from the air.

Writing for a general audience, Preston focuses more on the boy's own derring-do aspects of the story, with lots of encounters with snakes and other critters, appalling weather and even a curse of sorts. On that level this is an absorbing and interesting read, but I would have preferred to learn more about the archaeological and anthropological significance of what they discovered there. It may be that there is not yet enough work done on these sites for much to be written about that, and hopefully there will be another book sometime that tells us more about the finds than the finding of them.

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McEyre

Disappointing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 16 January 2022

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A well-written account of an expedition into hostile country. However, for me the book did not really work. The story jumped from place to place and the description of making the finds, and the finds themselves, seemed incidental to the author’s coverage of a raft of other associated topics. While these topics were interesting, they were peripheral to the main theme: the archaeology. The book desperately needed maps and sketches. How you can write a book with a strong geographical content but provide no maps was extraordinary. Even a map showing where Honduras is in the world would have been useful! I also found it strange that there weren’t more photographs of the finds. For instance there were two photographs of a dead snake but only three of the finds. In summary a disappointing read.

Jules

Taking a leaf out of his own adventure novels, ...

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 April 2017

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Taking a leaf out of his own adventure novels, the author heads off for real into the Honduran jungle to find a fable lost city from an equally lost past civilisation.

With SAS protection against lawless drug cartels and archaeological thieves, the team find the lost ruins (this is not a spoiler as the trip and discovery have been well documented).

But there the adventure turns sour and many of them experience the very thing which could have caused an entire civilisation to pack up and leave their world. Centuries old issues arise from disturbing the jungle ruins and whilst they don’t dampen the author’s enthusiasm for the tale, the end is a sobering insight into the consequences of history.

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LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD by DOUGLAS PRESTON

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 15 January 2017

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Read the book review in the newspaper and got the book. The full account of the discovery of the lost city in Honduras was fascinating. Both mystery, history and adventure and very well written. And a warning to us all from history. Recommend it!

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Valerie E

Really great read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 13 March 2022

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Meticulous detail of the search and circumstances surrounding the expedition, and the aftermath. Exciting adventure story, even though not my usual taste in books.

Paul Lindstrom

Very exciting read!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 September 2018

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I knew nothing about the latest development in aerial image detection and analysis, or how it could be used in modern archeology, but this was key to re-discover the abandoned ruins deep in the Honduras jungle. A fascinating, sometimes gruesome story told, which holds a grip on the reader all the way through the book. Highly recommendable!

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