The Lost City of the Monkey God Kitap pdf indir

Douglas Jerome Preston (31 Mayıs 1956 doğumlu) Amerikalı bir gazeteci ve yazardır. En çok Lincoln Child (Ajan Pendergast serisi ve Gideon Crew serisi dahil) ile ortaklaşa yaptığı gerilim romanlarıyla tanınmasına rağmen, Wyman Ford serisi ve bir filme dönüştürülen Jennie adlı bir roman da dahil olmak üzere altı solo roman yazmıştır. Disney tarafından. Bilim ve keşif üzerine yarım düzine kurgusal olmayan kitap yazdı ve ara sıra The New Yorker, Smithsonian ve diğer dergiler için yazıyor.
Preston, Cambridge, Massachusetts'te doğdu ve Wellesley, Massachusetts'te büyüdü. Weston, Massachusetts'teki Cambridge Weston Okulu ve Claremont, California'daki Pomona Koleji'nden mezun olan Preston, yazma kariyerine New York'taki Amerikan Doğa Tarihi Müzesi'nde başladı.
Sık sık birlikte çalıştığı Lincoln Child ile Relic, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Brimstone ve White Fire gibi romanlarının çoğunda yer alan FBI Özel Ajanı Pendergast karakterini yarattı. Preston ve Child ekibinin ek romanları arasında Dragon Dağı, Riptide, Thunderhead ve The Ice Limit yer alıyor. Daha sonra ikili, Gideon's Sword, Gideon's Corpse ve The Lost Island'dan oluşan Gideon Crew serisini yarattı.

The Lost City of the Monkey God kitap pdf oku ve indir 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."