The Lost City of the Monkey God Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Douglas Preston
SCORE
4
TOTAL RATINGS
854

The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston Book Summary

The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery.

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 committed suicide without revealing its location.

Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization.

Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful 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.

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Book Name The Lost City of the Monkey God
Genre History
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Language English
E-Book Size 43.6 MB

The Lost City of the Monkey God (Douglas Preston) Book Reviews 2024

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Gripping. I read this book in two days. Loved it!

Not a typical Childs and Preston book. Interesting story with many twists. I’m recommending it to my friends.

True Story. When I saw "true story" I though, what have I gotten into. Well, I got into a very well written book with as many twists and turns as some fiction. I am surprised to say this is an excellent read.

Loved it must read. Loved it must read

Great discovery account!!. A great read about historic discovery in La Mosquitia, Honduras 🇭🇳!!!

The Lost City of the Monkey God. A good read about a place I hope never to go!

Intriquing does not give it justice. I read all of Douglas Preston novels and the books he is a joint writer of but had not read a non fiction one that he had written. This book was very well written and documented. It was extremely thought provoking. I am fascinated with rare viruses and the like so this book provided an extra bonus for me with Douglas covering Leishmaniasis. Very thought provoking. If you have any desire to learn more about long past societies and their archeological history then you will thoroughly enjoy this book. It is very well written and one that I could not put down. Thank you Mr Preston for taking the reader on a fascinating journey.

A very good read. A fascinating combination of exploration, history, space-age technology, archaeology and medicine, with some unexpected twists.

Overall really good. Maybe they all turned into vampires..

The Lost City of the Monkey God. This review has nothing to do with the book itself. Now please don’t discard this review. It has to do with the pricing of the book. In one place you have $2.99 and in another it is $9.99. But yet it is called a special. Please make up your mind and let your customers know what price we are to pay. I really wanted to read this book more than any other. But I really want to know how much I will pay for it. Thank you for your time, Carin M.

Not worth the read. Not worth the read. Really. If you want the story of this legendary "lost" city (which is remarkable), just go to YouTube or Wikipedia. This book is just the author's rendition of his experiences on the search. He did a good job covering the history of prior expeditions, but Wiki has that covered as well.

Airport Treasure. Loved it.

Gripping. I devoured this book! The history, adventure and science was all fascinating. One of my favorite reads of the year.

Fantastic Read. Finished in one sitting. The author makes you feel like you are right beside him for the entire journey. Highly recommend!

Fairly interesting. The hype of finding the city keeps you reading well into the book. Then upon finding it the book falls short with very little in the ruins and just a lot of theories. Actually 3 stars is generous.

Must read. Stumbled upon this book and loved it. I love the way it is written - very detailed yet exciting. I learned about a lost city that I had never been exposed to before. I would recommend this book if you like fiction, history, and adventure.

A great read.. I just loved it

Well done. Enjoyed the story. Hard to find fault with the truth.

The lost city of the monkey God. Extremely well written. Story line was laid out with care to chronology. History was wonderful. Adventure attention holding. Medical saga re leash is worth the pice of admission" Although the vector-spread of the disease was attributed to global warming the author wisely did not assign "blame" or causation exclusively to man's occupation of Earth. Though Preston's ideological views were made evident in his summation, they did not do damage. This book should be a must read--for enjoyment, edification, and education! Stan farmer author of Fool on a Hill

Disappointing. What a bummer. This book starts as a fabulous adventure story every bit as good as Treasure Island, except that it's true making it even better. Just when some real discoveries are made, and you're thinking you'll stay up all night to finish the book, it crashes to a banal narrative. I kept reading hoping the exciting narrative would return, but it never did. Instead there is a discussion of the disease the explorers contracted in the jungle which is about as much fun as listening to the lady's bridge club talk about their gallbladder operations. This is used as a segue to trite moralizations . Interesting things like details of discoveries at the site never appear. Save your money

Engaging book. Enjoyable and well-written

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Interesting but slow moving. I enjoy his books and have read all his fiction work, this was the first time I read his non-fiction and I found it interesting but the book moved really slow. I found my way wanting to skip over paragraphs which I never did in his non-fiction work.

Disappointed. While the first half of the book was quite good. The third quarter is about disease and the last quarter is photos too small to see. The book online should be 300 pages at most. It is almost a short story not a novel.

A prequel to COVID. The adventure that I thought I was on , to learn about an ancient lost civilization took a side road as a prequel to COVID in 2020-21! A brilliant rant and foreshadowing of our future. Randal Ormston

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The The Lost City of the Monkey God book written by Douglas Preston was published on 03 January 2017, Tuesday in the History category. A total of 854 readers of the book gave the book 4 points out of 5.

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