The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston

However, Preston’s research reveals a shocking new twist to this seventy-five-year-old story. In 1940, The New York Times ran a front-page article announcing that “City of Monkey God Is Believed Located” by swashbuckling explorer Theodore Morde. Do you believe that any of them came across the same city that Preston and Elkins and the expedition found in T1, and if so, who?ģ. Preston offers a colorful history of the men who had tried to find the Ciudad Blanca over the centuries-many of whom came back with vivid accounts of their discoveries. What do you think the appeal is of this kind of quest? What is it about the idea of discovering a lost city that maintains such a perennial grip on the human imagination?Ģ. The legend of the Ciudad Blanca has been around for more than five centuries, and in that time, generations of adventurers have risked their lives in search of it. 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.

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston