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

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    • Publication Information:
      First edition.
    • Abstract:
      Scope and content: In 1940, Theodore Morde returned from an expedition into the Honduran rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and a story about finding the legendary Lost City of the Monkey God--but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012, Douglas Preston was part of a new attempt to find the city using airplanes and lidar.
    • Abstract:
      Summary: Recounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle.
    • Content Notes:
      Gates of Hell -- Somewhere in the Americas -- The Devil Had Killed Him -- Land of Cruel Jungles -- One of the Few Remaining Mysteries -- Heart of Darkness -- The Fish That Swallowed the Whale -- Lasers in the Jungle -- Something Nobody Had Done -- 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 -- Cave of the Glowing Skulls -- Symbol of Death -- They Came to Wither the Flowers -- White Leprosy -- National Institutes of Health -- An Isolated Species -- La Ciudad del Jaguar -- We Became Orphans.
    • Notes:
      Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index.
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    • ISBN:
      9781455540006 (hardback)
      1455540005 (hardback)
    • Accession Number:
      2016037247
    • Accession Number:
      966430360
    • Accession Number:
      ccp.998533