6/28/2023 0 Comments The monkey god book![]() The team included renowned archeologists, anthropologists, scientists, private ex-military survivalists, and Honduran spec-ops trained in jungle survival. Preston, who was hired to report on the expedition for National Geographic and the New Yorker, joined a small team funded by a documentary filmmaker. Major archaeological work at the site started in 2012 and is ongoing. The discovery* of the City of the Jaguar, formerly known as La Ciudad Blanca or The White City, in the perilous Mosquitia region of Honduras has been a thoroughly modern undertaking. Most books about white men exploring the jungle harken back to the grainy black-and-white days of Theodore Rosevelt or Queen Victoria but Douglas Preston’s trek in The Lost City of the Monkey God is anchored firmly in the present. High-tech military equipment, a flesh eating disease, and ancient curses collide in this unapologetically modern twist on the gentleman-explorer narrative. ![]()
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