La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono

una historia real

  • 3.0 (6 ratings)
  • 30 Want to read
  • 8 Have read
La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono
Douglas Preston, Douglas Prest ...
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

  • 30 Want to read
  • 8 Have read

Buy this book

Last edited by OnFrATa
November 2, 2024 | History

La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono

una historia real

  • 3.0 (6 ratings)
  • 30 Want to read
  • 8 Have read

Una leyenda de 500 años.
Una maldición antigua.
Un asombroso misterio médico.

Y un viaje de descubrimiento al corazón ignoto de la selva más densa del mundo.

Desde los días de Hernán Cortés han circulado rumores sobre una ciudad perdida con inmensas riquezas escondida en alguna parte de Honduras, llamada la Ciudad Blanca o la Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono. Los pueblos indígenas hablan de ancestros que huyeron a ese lugar para escapar de los conquistadores españoles, y advierten que cualquiera que entre a esta ciudad sagrada enfermará y morirá. En 1940, el periodista estadounidense Theodore Morde regresó de la selva con cientos de objetos antiguos, asegurando haber encontrado la Ciudad Blanca. Sin embargo, se suicidó sin revelar su ubicación.

Tres cuartos de siglo después, el escritor Douglas Preston se unió a un equipo de exploradores en una nueva aventura. A bordo de un viejo avión monomotor, y gracias a un avanzado dispositivo láser, descubrieron la imagen inconfundible de una metrópoli entre el denso follaje selvático. Aventurándose en esta tierra salvaje, Preston y el equipo de investigadores se enfrentaron a lluvias torrenciales, arenas movedizas, insectos portadores de enfermedades, jaguares y serpientes. Sin embargo, no fue sino hasta su regreso que la tragedia los golpeó: Preston y otros descubrieron que habían contraído una terrible enfermedad en las ruinas.

Intrigante e impactante, plagada de aventuras estremecedoras y dramáticos giros de tuerca, La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono es el recuento verídico de uno de los grandes descubrimientos del siglo XXI.

Publish Date
Language
Spanish
Pages
384

Buy this book

Edition Availability
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
2018, Grand Central Publishing
in English
Cover of: La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono
La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono: una historia real
2018, Literatura Random House
Paperback in Spanish
Cover of: Lost City of the Monkey God
Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
2017, Grand Central Publishing
in English
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God
2017-08-17, Head of Zeus
Softcover in English
Cover of: Die Stadt des Affengottes
Die Stadt des Affengottes: Eine unbekannte Zivilisation, ein mysteriöser Fluch, eine wahre Geschichte
2017, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt
eBook (ePUB) in German
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Sep 05, 2017, Grand Central Publishing
paperback
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Sep 05, 2017, Grand Central Publishing
audio cd
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
2017, Head of Zeus
Softcover in English
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
2017, Grand Central Publishing
Paperback in English
Cover of: Lost City of the Monkey God
Lost City of the Monkey God
2017, Head of Zeus
in English
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Jan 03, 2017, Grand Central Publishing
audio cd
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God: a true story
2017
in English - First edition.
Cover of: The Lost City of the Monkey God
The Lost City of the Monkey God
2017-01-13, Head of Zeus
Hardcover in English

Add another edition?

Book Details


Edition Notes

Translation from the English of: Lost City of the Monkey God.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-372) and index.

Text in Spanish, translated from the English.

Published in
Ciudad de México
Translation Of
The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
Translated From
English

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
972.85

Contributors

Translator
Hugo López Araiza Bravo

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
384 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : chiefly color illustrations, maps
Number of pages
384

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26975605M
ISBN 10
6073167563
ISBN 13
9786073167567
OCLC/WorldCat
1037282319

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL17876084W

Work Description

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 Douglas 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.

Links outside Open Library

Community Reviews (1)

Pace 1 Fast paced 100% Breadth 1 Shallow 100% Genres 1 Based on a true story 100% Mood 1 Romantic 100% Impressions 1 Don't recommend 100% Length 1 Short 100% Credibility 1 Outdated 100%

Lists

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation