| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 263 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-263). |
| Contents |
A professional amateur -- The mountain that cries -- The mystery stick -- "Treading on dynamite" -- My lost-city guide -- "I was lost" -- The coup -- "949 miles to La Ceiba" -- Good-bye -- "Left for dead but too mean to die" -- hotstuffie92 -- "Where there grow strange large flowers" -- Snakes and valium -- "Definitely on the way at last" -- The Valley of the Princess -- "Gold fever" -- Pancho -- "The last outpost" -- Bandit alley -- "The equivalent of a state secret" -- Mortal threats -- Dance of the dead monkeys -- Catacamas -- "Green hell" -- Loco men -- "All had faded into thin air" - The jungle that disappeared -- "Beyond hope" -- Looking for camp Ulak -- "No trace of ruins" -- Calling home -- "The lost city of the Money God" -- Our time with the pirates -- "The jungle does not seem like it wants us to go" -- "Please come home" -- "Ice in our glasses!" -- Ernesto's story -- "This strange civilization" -- What we learned from the Tawahkas -- Daisy -- Gateway to the Lost Cities -- "They had orders to shoot" -- My lowest low -- "I'm having the time of my life" -- Journey to the crosses -- "From journalist and explorer and spy to a father" -- The Morde Theory -- The Lost City. |
| Summary |
The author chronicles his present-day journey to find Ciudad Blanca, the legendary White City rumored to exist in the rain forests of Nicaragua's and Honduras' Mosquito Coast, following in the footsteps of the explorer and World War II spy Theodore Morde, who set out on the same journey on April 6, 1940. |
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Stewart, Christopher S. -- Travel -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
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Morde, Theodore -- Travel -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
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Geographical myths -- Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras)
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Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- Description and travel.
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Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) -- History -- 20th century.
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Central America -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
9780061802546 hardcover |
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0061802549 hardcover |
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