Douglas Preston's The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
offers an Indiana Jones-like adventure in search of a the lost city in Honduras. The violent survival tales of their sketchy fixer provide a set up for their quest to explore this remote location filled with poisonous snakes, jaguars and tropical diseases.Previous attempts to locate the "White City" during the mid 20th Century later turned out to be complete fabrications. However, natives suggest that there might be something there. It is incredibly hard to find the city with heavy canopy overgrowth and a country at war with insurgency and narco-terrorists and very difficult access. They secure a LIDAR (wikipedia) unit to help guide their search.
The book ends with a cautionary tale about the northern spread of a tropical fungal disease contracted during the investigation. It mirrors the problem of Old World diseases that decimated the population of central and south America in the 16th Century.
Lost City of the Monkey God - 39 min.
Explorers find Cursed lost city - 5 min.
Documentary film editor Steve Elkins - 31 min.
Documentary film editor Steve Elkins - 31 min.
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