Saturday, April 15, 2017

Auguries Review: The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston

The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story

The study begins with the existence of the city as a legend of the ancient Honduras, a city of opulence in the central Honduras, which most people dismiss as a myth and culminates into an exploration of the intractable deadly lands of the rain forests where survival is at stake in spite of all the modern world technological and medical access.
The author starts with the chronology of earlier known expeditions and goes on narrating his first hand account of the Lost City of the Monkey God and then explores the reasons behind the vanishing of the entire culture and natives into oblivion leaving no traces except the artifacts that had been lying untouched.
A brilliant work of extensive research this book is highly recommended. It is a must read.
In a scale of 20 I give it 18.75.