The Lost City of the Monkey God

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For 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. 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. 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. But when the expedition finally reached the ruins, battling torrential rains and venomous snaked in the world's densest jungle, tragedy struck: Preston and others contracted a mysterious —and incurable— disease. THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is a 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.