
He spent 20 years trying to find it and his exploits were detailed in the best-selling book by Douglas Preston, The Lost City of the Monkey God, and in a film of the same name by Bill Benenson. This is the true story of how adventurer Steve Elkins became captivated by the legend of La Ciudad, the White City, a great ruin rumored to exist in the interior mountains of the Mosquitia region of Honduras. It sounds like the next installment of Indiana Jones, but this is not fiction. A lost city on the mountains of Honduras! An intrepid explorer determined to find it! A million-dollar machine, capable of mapping terrain using sensors! Special Forces! Poisonous snakes, deadly parasites and torrential rains! Brushes with death!
