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THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD - DOUGLAS PREST...

Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés  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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