Months after returning from Mosquitia, roughly half the crew - Preston included - began to notice ugly bug bites that wouldn't heal. In an impressive sleight-of-hand, Preston often dives headfirst into historical context without losing the momentum of the adventure, rarely slipping into the passivity so often dogging historical prose. Instead, in prose no less gripping and visceral than his first-person account, Preston traces the myth of the White City back to its roots, exploring the earliest indigenous records of the lost civilization, retracing several ill-fated American expeditions - disrupting previously held beliefs in the process - and interviewing historians, archaeologists and other academics along the way.
In fact, the team's sweaty and swashbuckling days in Mosquitia make up just half the book. Preston pushes "The Lost City of the Monkey God" well beyond the standard adventure narrative.
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