Cities of Gold pdf

Douglas Jerome Preston (born May 31, 1956) is an American journalist and author. Although he is best known for his thrillers in collaboration with Lincoln Child (including the Agent Pendergast series and Gideon Crew series), he has also written six solo novels, including the Wyman Ford series and a novel entitled Jennie, which was made into a movie by Disney. He has authored a half-dozen nonfiction books on science and exploration and writes occasionally for The New Yorker, Smithsonian, and other magazines.
Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts and grew up in Wellesley, Massachusetts. A graduate of the Cambridge School of Weston in Weston, Massachusetts, and Pomona College in Claremont, California, Preston began his writing career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
With his frequent collaborator Lincoln Child, he created the character of FBI Special Agent Pendergast, who appears in many of their novels, including Relic, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Brimstone, and White Fire. Additional novels by the Preston and Child team include Mount Dragon, Riptide, Thunderhead, and The Ice Limit. Later, the duo created the Gideon Crew series, which consists of Gideon's Sword, Gideon's Corpse, and The Lost Island.

Cities of Gold pdf by Douglas Preston

Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado

In April 1989, Douglas Preston and Walter Nelson set out to retrace Coronado's 1540-41 journey through the Southwest in search of the fabled cities of gold. The result is an extraordinary and indelible portrait of the modern Southwest in which Preston retraces Coronado's route, wandering over much of the "real West", fast vanishing under the corrosive tide of modern progress. Maps.
"When I was growing up, I spent my summers in an old farmhouse on the Maine seacoast. The upstairs bathroom who thought the old pine boards underneath a sanitary hazard. Imprinted on the linoleum was a giant map of the United States, and by chance the terrain of the bathroom placed the state of New Mexico directly in front of the toilet."