The Lost City of the Monkey God : a True Story

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Call Number: BOCD 972.85 Pr, Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / History / Preston, Douglas
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 972.85 Pr	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Traverwood Adult A/V 4-week checkout	Adult BOCD / Nonfiction / History / Preston, Douglas	4-week checkout	On Shelf

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Read by Bill Mumy.
"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...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,...Douglas Preston joined a team of scientists on a quest..." to find the lost city.-- From the publisher.

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some parts are hard to follow in the audiobook submitted by camelsamba on June 20, 2018, 9:49pm In September 2017, my son's Spanish teacher offered extra credit to students who attended a book talk / signing by this author and then gave a brief report to the class. We're still not entirely sure why - she certainly wasn't there and nary a Spanish word beyond 'Honduras' was spoken during the talk. Perhaps because of the location? Anyway, I went with him and the talk was quite intriguing!

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 have a hard time following discussions rife with numbers (e.g. pre-columbian city sizes, population losses, things like that) in audiobooks. 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.

Apparently this audiobook includes PDF content but I did not figure out how to access it in the overdrive app. I was hoping for lots of photos, maybe that's what it contains!