THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD

Libro

Editorial	Hachette
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Nivel	.
Autor	PRESTON DOUGLAS
ISBN	9781455540013
Peso ( kg )	0,297
Formato	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2017
Tapa	Rústica
Sinopsis	A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, 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 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 rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, 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 an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful 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. PRESTON DOUGLAS Douglas Jerome Preston nació en Cambridge, Massachusetts, el 26 de mayo de 1956. Estudió en The Cambridge School of Weston y se graduó en Pomona College, en California. Inició su carrera como escritor en el Museo Americano de Historia Natural de Nueva York, donde trabajó como editor y columnista para la revista Natural History entre 1978 y 1985. Ha colaborado con publicaciones como The New Yorker, Smithsonian, Harper's y National Geographic. Es autor de novelas de terror y tecno-thriller, y coautor junto a Lincoln Child de series como Aloysius Pendergast y Gideon Crew. También ha escrito libros de no ficción sobre ciencia y exploración.
Cantidad de páginas	336
Fecha Ingreso	01-01-0001