#1 New York Times bestselling author Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization. For 500 years, explorers searched for a cursed "Lost City" deep in the Honduran rainforest. Preston was aboard the historic flight that finally mapped the terrain of an unexplored valley, ringed by impenetrable mountains, using space-age technology. They found not just an ancient city, but a lost civilisation.
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ISBN: 9781455569410 (large print) :
Physical Description:440 pages
Publisher:New York : Grand Central Publishing, c2017
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The Gates of Hell -- Somewhere in the Americas -- The Devil Had Killed Him -- A Land of Cruel Jungles -- One of the Few Remaining Mysteries -- The Heart of Darkness -- The Fish That Swallowed the Whale -- Lasers in the Jungle -- Something Nobody Had Done -- The Most Dangerous Place on the Planet -- Uncharted Territory -- No Coincidences -- Fer-de-Lance -- Don't Pick the Flowers -- Human Hands -- "I'm Going Down" -- A Bewitchment Place -- Quagmire -- Controversy -- The Cave of the Glowing Skulls -- The Symbol of Death -- They Came to Wither the Flowers -- White Leprosy -- The National Institutes of Health -- An Isolated Species -- La Ciudad del Jaguar -- We Are Orphans.