The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story
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Fantastic read! Best armchair travel read I've had in a long time! And a ton of educational material.
The closing chapter is pretty prophetic.
Fine book about a legitimately interesting archeological discovery but still, just not comfortable with these Indiana Jones style narratives - as accurate as they may be.
It's the twenty-first century and there are still entire cities lying abandoned—and unlooted!—in the deep jungle. Entire civilizations we know almost nothing about. This is the story of the discovery (via lidar) and much-much-too-brief exploration of one such ruin. It's also much more: a hard-hitting reminder of how disease swept through and annihilated ninety percent of the population of the Americas, and how Europeans cruelly murdered many of the rest; it's also an eye-opening description of leishmaniasis, a devastating disease we will start seeing more of in the coming years.
