The Lost City of the Monkey God pdf

Douglas Jerome Preston (nato il 31 maggio 1956) è un giornalista e scrittore americano. Sebbene sia meglio conosciuto per i suoi thriller in collaborazione con Lincoln Child (tra cui la serie Agent Pendergast e la serie Gideon Crew), ha anche scritto sei romanzi da solista, tra cui la serie Wyman Ford e un romanzo intitolato Jennie, che è stato trasformato in un film dalla Disney. È autore di una mezza dozzina di libri di saggistica sulla scienza e l'esplorazione e scrive occasionalmente per The New Yorker, Smithsonian e altre riviste.
Preston è nato a Cambridge, nel Massachusetts, ed è cresciuto a Wellesley, nel Massachusetts. Diplomato alla Cambridge School of Weston a Weston, Massachusetts, e al Pomona College di Claremont, in California, Preston ha iniziato la sua carriera di scrittore all'American Museum of Natural History di New York.
Con il suo frequente collaboratore Lincoln Child, ha creato il personaggio dell'agente speciale dell'FBI Pendergast, che appare in molti dei loro romanzi, tra cui Relic, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Brimstone e White Fire. Altri romanzi del team Preston e Child includono Mount Dragon, Riptide, Thunderhead e The Ice Limit. Successivamente, il duo ha creato la serie Gideon Crew, che consiste in Gideon's Sword, Gideon's Corpse e The Lost Island.

The Lost City of the Monkey God pdf da 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."