La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono / The Lost City of the Monkey

La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono / The Lost City of the Monkey God: A true Story (Spanish Edition)

Una leyenda de 500 aÃ±os.
Una maldiciÃ³n antigua.
Un asombroso misterio mÃ©dico.

Y un viaje de descubrimiento al corazÃ³n ignoto de la selva mÃ¡s densa del mundo.

Desde los dÃas deÂ HernÃ¡n CortÃ©sÂ han circulado rumores sobre una ciudad perdida con inmensas riquezas escondida en alguna parte de Honduras, llamadaÂ la Ciudad Blanca o la Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono.Â Los pueblos indÃgenas hablan de ancestros que huyeron a ese lugar para escapar de los conquistadores espaÃ±oles, y advierten que cualquiera que entre a estaÂ ciudad sagradaÂ enfermarÃ¡ y morirÃ¡. En 1940, el periodista estadounidense Theodore Morde regresÃ³ de la selva con cientos de objetos antiguos, asegurando haber encontrado la Ciudad Blanca. Sin embargo,Â se suicidÃ³ sin revelar su ubicaciÃ³n.
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Tres cuartos de siglo despuÃ©s, el escritor Douglas Preston se uniÃ³ a un equipo de exploradores en una nueva aventura. A bordo de un viejo aviÃ³n monomotor, y gracias a un avanzado dispositivo lÃ¡ser, descubrieron la imagen inconfundible deÂ una metrÃ³poli entre el denso follaje selvÃ¡tico.Â AventurÃ¡ndose 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 golpeÃ³: Preston y otros descubrieron que habÃan contraÃdo unaÂ terrible enfermedadÂ en las ruinas.

Intrigante e impactante, plagada de aventuras estremecedoras y dramÃ¡ticos giros de tuerca,Â La Ciudad Perdida del Dios MonoÂ es elÂ recuento verÃdicoÂ de uno de los grandes descubrimientos del siglo XXI.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

NAMED A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017
#1 New York Times and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller!

A Best Book of 2017 from the Boston Globe

One of the 12 Best Books of the Year from National Geographic

Included in Lithub's Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List

A Favorite Science Book of 2017 from Science News

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle.

Since the days of conquistador HernÃ¡n CortÃ©s, 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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Country USA
Brand Literatura Random House
Manufacturer Literatura Random House
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2018-09-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9786073167567

Country	USA
Brand	Literatura Random House
Manufacturer	Literatura Random House
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2018-09-25
UnitCount	1
EANs	9786073167567

La Ciudad Perdida del Dios Mono / The Lost City of the Monkey God: A true Story (Spanish Edition)

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