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Lädt ... The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Storyvon Douglas Preston
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. If you are only going to read one book with lost city in the tile , make it lost city of z.if only one one Douglas Preston book,I preferred dinosaurs in the attic. That said, this is a well told story. A bit of history, a bit of archeology and a couple of fun "yikes, the jungle is out to get me,"moments. I felt he tried to play that aspect up a little too much. I read a lot of first hand accounts and it seemed Preston encountered more snakes and Jaguars than all the zoo explorers I've read combined.course, most were just noses in thenight. And way, enjoyable if sometimes controversial read ( ) Douglas Preston bit off a little more than he could chew when he set out with an expedition to the Honduran jungle to uncover a "lost civilization." For all he had heard about venomous snakes, deadly jaguars, and tropical diseases, he didn't really take them seriously until disease-ridden sandflies chewed him up and spit him out, leaving him with a stern case of visceral leishmaniasis. If left untreated, the disease could have resulted in Preston losing his mouth and nose to this flesh-eating disease, and possibly having his face cave in on itself. You'd think Preston would have learned his lesson but NO HE DID NOT. So charmed was he with the discoveries his colleagues made he went back into the jungle for the official opening of the site to archaeological recovery. Since the Columbian drug lords moved head offices to Honduras, it has been a notoriously dangerous place to do business or, for that matter, recover lost treasure. Honduran farmers are busy destroying the jungle for grazing land and any hint of ancient art buried in the land brings poachers. Nothing would make me eager to come face-to-face with a six-foot-long fer-de-lance snake and his/her 1.5" fangs. I sometimes wonder about people's sanity. This may be a decent book for many readers, but I have read better adventure/exploration books (Lost City of Z, River of Doubt, Walk in the Woods, To Timbuktu and others). The adventure was mild, the science was sketchy, and too many assumptions that lead to conclusions based on sinking mud. I would suggest moving on to something a little more rewarding. The 500 year old legend said there was an ancient city hidden the Honduran rain forest and those who went there fell ill and died. Author Preston joined an scientific expedition in 2012 to find this city and explore it. Using latest technology such as Lidar that permitted the exploring of the jungle canopy from the air they discovered the exact location of the ancient buildings and planned an on foot exploration. The trip would prove dangerous because of snakes, including the deadly fer-de-lance, multiple diseases carried by insects including leishmaniasis and wild animals such as the jaguar. Most of the participants would become affected with tropical diseases, some who will probably suffer from them for the rest of their lives. An exciting and challenging true story that challenges the reader to ask, "Could I do such a trip?" keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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. 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 having committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this treacherous but breathtaking 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. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, The Lost City of the Monkey God is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century. -- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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