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03395aam a2200361Ii 4500 001 6D30BED4E25C11E8B947250B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181107010235 008 180523s2018 mx ab b 001 0aspa d 020 $a 9786073167567 020 $a 6073167563 035 $a (OCoLC)1037282319 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d KCK $d IWB $d SILO 041 1 $a spa $h eng 100 1 $a Preston, Douglas J., $e author. 240 00 $a Lost City of the Monkey God. $l Spanish. 245 13 $a La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono : $b una historia real / $c Douglas J. Preston ; traduccioÌn de Hugo LoÌpez Araiza Bravo. 264 1 $a Ciudad de MeÌxico : $b Literatura Random House, $c 2018. 300 $a 384 pages, [16] pages of plates : $b chiefly color illustrations, maps ; $c 23 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 546 $a Text in Spanish, translated from the English. 520 $a Since the days of conquistador HernaÌn CorteÌs, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God - but then having committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this treacherous but breathtaking wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal - and incurable - disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising 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. -- from dust jacket. 600 10 $a Preston, Douglas J. $x Travel $z Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) 651 0 $a Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) $x Description and travel. 651 0 $a Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) $x Discovery and exploration. 650 0 $a Extinct cities $z Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) 650 0 $a Cities and towns, Ancient $z Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) 650 0 $a Indians of Central America $z Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) $x Antiquities. 651 0 $a Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) $x Antiquities. 700 1 $a LoÌpez Araiza Bravo, Hugo, $e translator. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20210813010312.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6D30BED4E25C11E8B947250B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search