The Lost City of the Monkey God pdf

Douglas Jerome Preston (né le 31 mai 1956) est un journaliste et auteur américain. Bien qu'il soit surtout connu pour ses thrillers en collaboration avec Lincoln Child (dont la série Agent Pendergast et la série Gideon Crew), il a également écrit six romans solo, dont la série Wyman Ford et un roman intitulé Jennie, qui a été adapté en film. par Disney. Il est l'auteur d'une demi-douzaine de livres de non-fiction sur la science et l'exploration et écrit occasionnellement pour The New Yorker, Smithsonian et d'autres magazines.
Preston est né à Cambridge, Massachusetts et a grandi à Wellesley, Massachusetts. Diplômé de la Cambridge School of Weston à Weston, Massachusetts, et du Pomona College à Claremont, Californie, Preston a commencé sa carrière d'écrivain au Musée américain d'histoire naturelle de New York.
Avec son collaborateur fréquent Lincoln Child, il a créé le personnage de l'agent spécial du FBI Pendergast, qui apparaît dans plusieurs de leurs romans, notamment Relic, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Brimstone et White Fire. Les romans supplémentaires de l'équipe Preston and Child incluent Mount Dragon, Riptide, Thunderhead et The Ice Limit. Plus tard, le duo a créé la série Gideon Crew, qui se compose de Gideon's Sword, Gideon's Corpse et The Lost Island.

The Lost City of the Monkey God pdf par Douglas Preston

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, 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.
"Deep in Honduras, in a region called La Mosquitia, lie some of the last unexplored places on earth. Mosquitia is a vast, lawless area covering about thirty-two thousand square miles, a land of rainforests, swamps, lagoons, rivers, and mountains. Early maps labeled it the Portal del Infierno, or “Gates of Hell,” because it was so forbidding. The area is one of the most dangerous in the world, for centuries frustrating efforts to penetrate and explore it. Even now, in the twenty-first century, hundreds of square miles of the Mosquitia rainforest remain scientifically uninvestigated."