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"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... In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundre...

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Main Author: Preston, Douglas J.
Other Authors: Mumy, Billy, 1954-
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Hachette Audio, [2017]
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Preston, Douglas J. > Travel > Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) > Description and travel.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) > Discovery and exploration.
Extinct cities > Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Cities and towns, Ancient > Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
Indians of Central America > Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) > Antiquities.
Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) > Antiquities.
Authors, American > Maine.
Travel writing.
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Summary:"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... 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,...Douglas Preston joined a team of scientists on a quest..." to find the lost city.--From the publisher.
Item Description:Title from web page.
Compact discs.
Includes a PDF of supplemental materials.
Physical Description:10 audio discs (630 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time:10:30:00
ISBN:9781478964520
1478964529
Author Notes:Douglas Jerome Preston was born on May 20, 1956 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received a B.A. in English literature from Pomona College in 1978. His career began at the American Museum of Natural History, where he worked as an editor and writer from 1978 to 1985. He also was a lecturer in English at Princeton University.

He became a full-time writer of both fiction and nonfiction books in 1986. Many of his fiction works are co-written with Lincoln Child including Relic, Riptide, Thunderhead, The Wheel of Darkness, Cemetery Dance, and Gideon's Corpse. His nonfiction works include Dinosaurs in the Attic; Cities of Gold: A Journey Across the American Southwest in Pursuit of Coronado; Talking to the Ground; and The Royal Road. He has written for numerous magazines including The New Yorker; Natural History; Harper's; Smithsonian; National Geographic; and Travel and Leisure. He became a New York Times Best Selling author with his titles Two Graves and Crimson Shores which he co-wrote with Lincoln Child, and his titles White Fire, The Lost Island Blue Labyrinth and The Lost City of the Monkey God.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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