The Lost City of the Monkey God pdf

道格拉斯·杰罗姆·普雷斯顿（डगलस जेरोम प्रेस्टन，1956 年 5 月 31 日－）是美国记者和作家。虽然他最出名的是与林肯儿童合作的惊悚片（包括特工彭德加斯特系列和吉迪恩船员系列），但他也写了六部个人小说，包括怀曼福特系列和一部名为珍妮的小说，该小说被拍成电影由迪士尼。他撰写了六本关于科学和探索的非小说类书籍，并偶尔为《纽约客》、史密森尼和其他杂志撰稿。
普雷斯顿出生在马萨诸塞州的剑桥，在马萨诸塞州的韦尔斯利长大。普雷斯顿毕业于马萨诸塞州韦斯顿的剑桥韦斯顿学院和加利福尼亚克莱蒙特的波莫纳学院，在纽约的美国自然历史博物馆开始了他的写作生涯。
他与他经常合作的林肯儿童一起创造了联邦调查局特工彭德加斯特的角色，他出现在他们的许多小说中，包括遗物、好奇心内阁、硫磺和白火。 Preston and Child 团队的其他小说包括《龙山》、《激流》、《雷云》和《冰之极限》。后来，二人创建了基甸船员系列，其中包括基甸之剑、基甸尸体和失落之岛。

The Lost City of the Monkey God pdf 道格拉斯·普雷斯顿

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."