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Author Preston, Douglas J, author.

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

Publication Info. New York : Grand Central Publishing, 2017.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Pittsburg 2nd Fl Non-Fiction  972.85 Pre    ---  Available
Edition First edition.
Description viii, 326 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Summary "#1 New York Times bestselling author 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography 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.
Source B&T 02.2017 PARS
Subject Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Description and travel.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Discovery and exploration.
Extinct cities -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras).
Cities and towns, Ancient -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras).
Indians of Central America -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities.
Preston, Douglas J. -- Travel -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras).
HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies).
HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries.
HISTORY / Latin America / Central America.
ISBN 9781455540006
1455540005

 
    
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