Morde committed suicide shortly after returning from his adventures, taking his secrets with him. There had been many explorers before who had attempted to find this “mythical” place, but except for the Indiana Jones style journalist Theodore Morde who emerged from the jungle in 1940 with a horde of fascinating objects and a story of finding the fabled White City, there had been nothing to substantiate the legend. Chartreuse, emerald, lime, aquamarine, teal, bottle, glaucous, asparagus, olive, celadon, jade, malachite-mere words are inadequate to express the chromatic infinites.”ĭouglas Preston was always interested in lost civilizations, so when he got the chance to join an expedition into the mosquitia jungle in Honduras to find the Lost City of the Monkey God, he was more than interested, he was all in. The tree crowns were packed together like puffballs, displaying every possible hue, tint, and shade of green. I can scarcely find words to describe the opulence of the rainforest that unrolled below us.
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