DOUGLAS PRESTON worked as a writer and editor for the American Museum of Natural History and taught writing at Princeton University. He has written for The New Yorker, Natural History, National Geographic, Harper's, Smithsonian, and The Atlantic. The author of several acclaimed nonfiction books--including the bestseller The Monster of Florence--Preston is also the co-author with Lincoln Child of the bestselling series of novels featuring FBI agent Pendergast.
"The Lost City of the Monkey God is a throwback to the golden age
of adventure archaeology, the thrilling true story of a group of
explorers penetrating one of the toughest jungles on earth in
search of a lost city...and finding it. Preston is a terrific
writer of both non-fiction books and bestselling novels, and makes
you feel the dark heart of this lost Honduran wilderness."--John
Sandford, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of the #1
New York Times bestselling Prey series of novels
"A captivating real-life adventure tale... Preston deftly explains
the science behind this work and makes it exciting."--Science
News
"A great true adventure, filled with danger, close calls,
better-than-Hollywood characters, and a lost world that reaches
through time and into everyone's future. One of the best nonfiction
books I've read."--Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author
of Shadow Divers and Pirate Hunters
"A story that moves from thrilling to sobering, fascinating to
downright scary--trademark Preston, in other words, and another
winner."--Kirkus, starred review
"A swift and often hair-raising account... Preston pushes "The Lost
City of the Monkey God" well beyond the standard adventure
narrative."--The Chicago Tribune
"A well-documented and engaging read...The author's narrative is
rife with jungle derring-do and the myriad dangers of the
chase."--USA Today
"Admirers of David Grann's The Lost City of Z will find their
thirst for armchair jungle adventuring quenched here...
Irresistibly gripping."--Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Be prepared to turn the pages furiously as the heart of every
adventurer is opened wide by the thrilling journey outlined in THE
LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD."--The Bookreporter
"Best-selling journalist and thriller author Douglas Preston stars
in his own true-story page-turner about the discovery of a lost
city deep in the Honduran jungle...giving readers an Indiana Jones
style adventure that's history, not Hollywood."--Virtuoso Life
"Breezy, colloquial and sometimes very funny...A very entertaining
book."--The Wall Street Journal
"Deadly snakes, flesh-eating parasites, and some of the most
forbidding jungle terrain on earth were not enough to deter Douglas
Preston from a great story."--The Boston Globe
"Douglas Preston is one of the most adventurous figures in American
letters today. Inured to personal danger, braving venomous snakes
and lethal pathogens, he somehow gets it all--the science, the
history, the intrigues, the obsessive characters, the electric
moment of discovery, and the haunted cries of a once-powerful
civilization. Preston's marvelous story is made all the more potent
by the astonishing fact that, from beginning to end, it happens to
be true."--Hampton Sides, New York Times bestselling author of In
the Kingdom of Ice
"Douglas Preston, at great risk to his own life, has produced a
thrilling and powerful adventure story. Not only does he leave the
reader fitfully turning the pages, he sheds an important light on
what the Americas looked like before the arrival of Christopher
Columbus and on the fragility of our own civilization."--David
Grann, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost City of Z
"For anyone who dreams of lost times and places--and who
doesn't?--this is the book. Revelatory, chilling, creepy, and alive
with deadly snakes and insects bearing incurable disease, it's high
adventure at its best, and all true."--Erik Larson, New York Times
bestselling author of Dead Wake and The Devil in the White City
"If you're going to explore a lost city-in this case one that
vultures, poisonous snakes, sand flies, and mudholes have protected
for 500 years-you really only want to do it with Douglas Preston. A
tale of bravado, chicanery, and impossible dreams, arresting at
every turn, no less so in its unexpected, pulse-racing
coda."--Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Witches:
Salem, 1692, and Cleopatra: A Life
"Let author Douglas Preston give testimony to the old adage: Truth
is stranger than fiction...The Lost City of the Monkey God is more
than just an adventure story. It examines such modern issues as the
ethics of archeological expeditions, man's destruction of the
rainforest and the incessant creep of technology and its effects on
indigenous peoples. Readers will find themselves both shocked and
captivated by this account of mysteries old and new."--Bookpage
"One of the best reads so far this year."--The Sacramento Bee
"Packed with the power of realism and history unfolding."--The Star
Ledger
"Preston builds a compelling case for the scientific significance
of what the expedition unearthed....The year may still be young,
but I would wager a small fortune that Douglas Preston has already
written the best snake-decapitation scene of 2017....The book's
most affecting moments [center] on the otherworldly nature of the
jungle itself....Memoirs of jungle adventures too often devolve
into lurid catalogs of hardships [but] Preston proves too
thoughtful an observer and too skilled a storyteller to settle for
churning out danger porn. He has instead created something nuanced
and sublime: a warm and geeky paean to the revelatory power of
archaeology....Few other writers possess such heartfelt
appreciation for the ways in which artifacts can yield the stories
of who we are."--The New York Times Book Review
"Replete with informative archaeology lessons and colorful
anecdotes about the challenges Elkins' crew faced during the
expedition, including torrential rains and encounters with deadly
snakes, Preston's uncommon travelogue is as captivating as any of
his more fanciful fictional thrillers."--Booklist
"The Lost City of the Monkey God is a superior example of narrative
nonfiction, an exciting, immersive tale of modern science and
ancient mythology. Preston captures the complexity of his subject
without bogging down in the details, presenting scenes with
clarity, purposefulness and wit. It's a great story for a snowy
day, an action-packed journey into a hot zone of scientific
intrigue."--The Portland Press Herald
"This modern-day archeological adventure and medical mystery reads
as rapidly as a well-paced novel, but is a heart-pounding true
story."--Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
"This nonfiction thriller about plunging into the interior of the
Honduran jungle is actually true and a perfect read for armchair
travelers or would-be adventurers who bemoan the fact that there's
nothing left to discover...Douglas Preston's true-life tale
includes everything from the latest technology to ancient curses to
scientific backbiting and a mysterious illness that came out of the
jungle and is headed your way."--The Huffington Post
"What reader could resist a new book by Douglas Preston called THE
LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD? Not this reader. Preston's book offers
rewards for both the mystery fan and the nonfiction aficionado. THE
LOST CITY is addictive-fast-paced and riveting, but it's also
important. We mustn't repeat the cataclysmic mistakes of the past.
Ironically-as THE LOST CITY illustrates-that's exactly what our
short-sighted civilization is doing right now."--James
Patterson
#11 on Amazon's Best 100 Books of The Year List!--Amazon
NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017#1 New York Times and #1
Wall Street Journal bestseller!A Best Book of 2017 from the Boston
GlobeOne of the 12 Best Books of the Year fromNational
GeographicIncluded in Lithub's Ultimate Best Books of 2017 ListA
Favorite Science Book of 2017 from Science News
One of Shelf Awareness's Best Books of the Year--Shelf
Awareness
One of Publishers Weekly's Best Books of 2017 in
Fiction!--Publishers Weekly
Included in The Texas Library Association's Texas Topaz Nonfiction
Reading List for 2017--TLA
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