The Lost City of the Monkey God : : a True Story

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Call Number: 972.85 Pr, Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / Latin & South America / Honduras
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	972.85 Pr	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Nonfiction / History / Latin & South America / Honduras	4-week checkout	On Shelf

The Gates of Hell -- Somewhere in the Americas -- The Devil Had Killed Him -- A Land of Cruel Jungles -- One of the Few Remaining Mysteries -- The Heart of Darkness -- The Fish That Swallowed the Whale -- Lasers in the Jungle -- Something Nobody Had Done -- The Most Dangerous Place on the Planet -- Uncharted Territory -- No Coincidences -- Fer-de-Lance -- Don't Pick the Flowers -- Human Hands -- "I'm Going Down" -- A Bewitchment Place -- Quagmire -- Controversy -- The Cave of the Glowing Skulls -- The Symbol of Death -- They Came to Wither the Flowers -- White Leprosy -- The National Institutes of Health -- An Isolated Species -- La Ciudad del Jaguar -- We Are Orphans.
"Douglas Preston takes readers on an adventure deep into the Honduran jungle in this riveting, danger-filled true story about the discovery of an ancient lost civilization"-- Provided by publisher.

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parts interesting, some a slog submitted by camelsamba on June 20, 2018, 9:51pm We learned about this book when the author spoke at Nicola's in September 2017. You know how you can watch the trailer for a movie, then watch the movie and think "all the good parts were in the trailer" ? That's what I feel like: most of the good parts were in his book talk. The actual book was slow to engage my full attention - it only really picks up about 40-45% in (and then there's another stretch in the final half where my attention waned again). I listened to it as an audiobook and had a hard time following the discussions rife with numbers (e.g. pre-columbian city sizes, population losses, things like that). I suspect if I'd been reading a print edition I would have skimmed huge chunks.

Interesting parts: I enjoyed hearing about the adventures when they were in camp. I was intrigued by some aspects of the leishmaniasis treatment (although for such a potentially horrid disease, they did seem slow to move to treatment!). One especially enlightening (to me) discussion centered on why old world diseases wreaked such havoc on new world populations and not vice versa. Finally, having spent some time in academia I got that "oooooh, gossip from another field" mild thrill when listening to the infighting between archaeologist tribes.

So interesting! submitted by melissahimich on July 8, 2018, 6:23pm This was such a cool book! I loved that it’s a true story. There were a few unsettling parts, but it was neat to get an inside view on finding archaeological sites. The lidar technology is amazing!

Relevance to 2020 submitted by pchao on August 10, 2020, 10:59am Reading this book gave me chills during this crazy year. The disease they contracted, leishmaniasis, is suffered by those who come into contact with wild nature... And this disease is not a medical research priority. Their discussion with Fauci in the book is oddly relevant to COVID-19. Disease spread, like global warming has no borders. Would recommend if you are curious about South American anthropology, Honduras, and archaeology.