![]() ![]() In January 2017, I learned of “The Lost City of the Monkey God” through an e-mail. Roughly two thirds of the entourage, more than thirty people, also contracted leishmaniasis. ![]() Published this year, the book describes adventurers, scientists, photographers, soldiers, and ex-commandos who found tantalizing traces of a lost civilization in a jungle called La Mosquitia. “It was a total anticlimax,” Preston later reported in “The Lost City of the Monkey God,” a fast-paced, often harrowing saga of a recent expedition to Honduras. Ensconced in the room's weirdly large chairs, the 61-year-old breathed deep, ready to receive his initial hit of amphotericin B. In June 2015, Douglas Preston-amateur archaeologist, National Geographic journalist, and author of best-selling thrillers-entered an infusion suite at the National Institutes of Health sporting an “oozing crater, fiery red and disgusting to look at” on his left upper arm. ![]()
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