The Lost City of the Monkey God : a true story / Douglas Preston
Material type:
TextEdition: First editionDescription: viii, 326 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmISBN: 1455540005 :Subject(s): Preston, Douglas J. -- Travel -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) | 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) -- Description and travel | Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Antiquities | Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Discovery and explorationDDC classification: 972.85 | 972.85 LOC classification: F1509.M9 | P74 2017
Contents:
Scope and content: "#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"--
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 Are Orphans
| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 972.85/PRES (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844500043399 |
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| 972.18/NIC The Aztecs / | 972.8/MCC The path between the seas : | 972.81/SHA Daily life in Maya civilization / | 972.85/PRES The Lost City of the Monkey God : | 972.875/MAN The Panama Canal / | 972.875/ST Panama canal : | 972.910/LEO Castro and the Cuban Revolution / |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-318) and index
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 Are Orphans
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"#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"--
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