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Amerika Cities and towns, Ancient Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Coming of age Indians of Central America Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Antiquities Large type books Mexico Midden-Amerika Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Antiquities Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar active 16th century OntdekkingsreizenFilter By Subjects
Amerika Cities and towns, Ancient Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Coming of age Indians of Central America Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Antiquities Large type books Mexico Midden-Amerika Mosquitia (Nicaragua and Honduras) Antiquities Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar active 16th century OntdekkingsreizenPreston, Douglas J.
Summary: Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 972.8 PREPreston, Douglas J
Summary: Recounts how the author and a team of scientists discovered a legendary sacred city, the Lost City of the Monkey God, hidden deep in the Honduran jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 972.85 PRENúñez Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar
Summary: "This edition of Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca'a Relacion offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Panfilo de Narvaez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970 NUNHsu, Hua
Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022