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    Summary and Analysis of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story: Based on the Book by Douglas Preston
    Summary and Analysis of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story: Based on the Book by Douglas Preston
    Summary and Analysis of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story: Based on the Book by Douglas Preston
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    Summary and Analysis of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story: Based on the Book by Douglas Preston

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of The Lost City of the Monkey God tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Douglas Preston’s book.

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    This short summary and analysis of The Lost City of the Monkey God includes:
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    About The Lost City of the Monkey God by Douglas Preston:
     
    Douglas Preston’s The Lost City of the Monkey God is a gripping account of the search for a civilization lost in the impenetrable jungles of Central America.
     
    For centuries, legends of the White City—the City of the Monkey God—have infused Central American culture and fired the imaginations of explorers and adventurers worldwide. The conquistadores heard of this marvel, but were never able to penetrate the jungle to find it.
     
    Author and journalist Douglas Preston accompanies a team of filmmakers and archaeologists into the one of the deadliest jungles on the planet to rediscover a truly lost world.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
     
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 25, 2017
    ISBN9781504030267
    Summary and Analysis of The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story: Based on the Book by Douglas Preston
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      Summary and Analysis of The Lost City of the Monkey God - Worth Books

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Timeline

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Douglas Preston

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      The story of Ciudad Blanca (the White City), also known as the City of the Monkey God, has been a Central American legend for more than five centuries. Tales of a settlement buried deep in the world’s most inhospitable jungle have been circulating since the days of the earliest Europeans to arrive in the New World. The Spanish conquistadores heard this legend—Hernán Cortés even wrote of it to King Charles V of Spain—but never found the city. It was said to be a cursed place.

      The legends persisted into the 19th and 20th centuries, drawing adventurers, treasure hunters, and archaeologists to the La Mosquitia region of Honduras, which is perhaps the most dangerous place on earth. It is a land of dense jungle and forbidding mountains, and host to jaguars, disease-ridden insects, and the world’s most venomous snakes.

      In spite of these dangers and difficulties, people continued to seek out Ciudad Blanca. Charlatans and hucksters even claimed to find it. The Lost City of the Monkey God tells the modern Indiana Jones story of a group of adventurers, filmmakers, and scientists who went deep into unexplored regions of Mosquitia and what they found there. It is the firsthand account, told by journalist and author Douglas Preston, of the search for what could be the greatest archaeological discovery of the 21st century.

      Overview

      The Lost City of the Monkey God tells the story of the search for ancient ruins deep in the jungles of Honduras—the unexplored remnants of a lost civilization. The region of La Mosquitia is incredibly isolated—walled by precipitous mountains, filled with thick jungle, and infested with deadly snakes, jaguars, and dangerous insects.

      In the 1990s, cinematographer and adventurer Steve Elkins first heard legends of Ciudad Blanca, sometimes called the City of the Monkey God, and was inspired to investigate it. Through extensive research, he became convinced that the legends were true. When Elkins learned how difficult it was to penetrate Mosquitia, he was forced to abandon his search until the advent of high-tech laser sensing equipment called lidar, or Light Detection and Ranging. In 2012, he organized airborne lidar scans of several sites in Mosquitia, and the results were astonishing. The lidar identified evidence of extensive human habitation, including two cities and numerous smaller settlements. The entire region had been shaped by human hands—an unidenified civilization that had emerged just as Mayan society fell into decline, buried by the overgrown jungle and lost to history.

      In three years of effort, Elkins planned an expedition to study the sites scanner by lidar firsthand on the ground. His team included the author, Douglas Preston, as well as archaeologists and ex-military bush rangers who were brought in to protect everyone from the extreme dangers of the area. Unlike the Maya, the people of Mosquitia did not build cut-stone temples; they used wood. All organic matter, including bone, had been dissolved and absorbed by the jungle. In the early stages of exploration, the team found earthen foundations, plazas, canals, and terraces, along with a cache of carved stone artifacts

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