The Lost Tomb, Douglas Preston
The Lost Tomb, Douglas Preston
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The Lost Tomb
And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

Author: Douglas Preston, David Grann

Narrator: Will Collyer

Unabridged: 12 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2023

Synopsis

Douglas Preston, the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, presents jaw-dropping true stories of Egyptian burial chambers, prehistoric ruins, pirate treasure, bizarre crimes, and more… 

What's it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that's been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the American Southwest? Who really was the infamous the Monster of Florence?

Douglas Preston's journalistic explorations have taken him from the haunted country of Italy to the jungles of Honduras. He was granted exclusive journalistic access to the largest tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings, broke the story of an extraordinary mass grave of animals killed by the asteroid impact that ended the Cretaceous period and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, and explored what lay hidden in the booby-trapped Money Pit on Oak Island. When he hasn't been co-authoring bestselling thrillers featuring FBI Agent Pendergast, Preston has been writing about some of the world’s strangest and most dramatic mysteries.

The Lost Tomb brings together an astonishing and compelling collection of true stories about buried treasure, enigmatic murders, lost tombs, bizarre crimes, and other fascinating tales of the past and present.
 

About Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston is the author of more than thirty books, both fiction and nonfiction, more than twenty of which have been New York Times bestsellers. He has worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. His first novel, Relic, coauthored with Lincoln Child, was made into a movie, and launched the famed Pendergast series of novels. His recent nonfiction book, The Monster of Florence, is also being made into a film. In addition to books, Preston writes about archaeology and paleontology for the New Yorker, National Geographic, and Smithsonian.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tanja on December 10, 2023

This is a collection of essays that the author has written for various magazines throughout the years. It’s non fiction with different topics, often thrilling ones. Murders, mysteries, fraud and fossils. I really enjoyed this and wish the book had been twice as thick!......more

Goodreads review by Bill on May 30, 2024

A fascinating collection of Preston’s nonfiction pieces he had written for various publications over the years. Preston has lived an extraordinary life and met many interesting figures that have given him such interesting subjects to write about. Fans of his fiction novels will recognize where he fo......more

Goodreads review by CYIReadBooks on November 19, 2023

Douglas Preston is part of one of my favorite team authors, Preston & Child. So I always make it a point to read their individual endeavors. And The Lost Tomb did not disappoint. The Lost Tomb contains a collection of thirteen different true stories. Some of them I was familiar with, but most of them......more

Goodreads review by Ashley on December 05, 2023

Thanks to NetGalley, Hachette Audio, and Grand Central Publishing for the ARC. It hasn't affected the contents of my review. I didn't realize going in that this would be a collection of the author's previously published essays and articles, mostly from The New Yorker, but in the end it didn't really......more

Goodreads review by Stewart on January 04, 2024

This is not an unbiased review. I've been a fan of Preston's work for decades, both solo and in collaboration with Lincoln Child. I reached the point long ago where I just automatically buy and read anything that has either of their names on it. Experience tells me that I won't be let down. The Lost......more

Quotes

"Buffs of buried-treasure and long-ago true-crime tales will enjoy Preston’s expertly woven tales."—Kirkus

Praise for The Lost City of the Monkey God

"Memoirs of jungle adventures too often devolve into lurid catalogs of hardships [but] Preston proves too thoughtful an observer and too skilled a storyteller to settle for churning out danger porn. He has instead created something nuanced and sublime: a warm and geeky paean to the revelatory power of archaeology...Few other writers possess such heartfelt appreciation for the ways in which artifacts can yield the stories of who we are."—The New York Times Book Review

"A well-documented and engaging read...The author's narrative is rife with jungle derring-do and the myriad dangers of the chase."—USA Today

"Deadly snakes, flesh-eating parasites, and some of the most forbidding jungle terrain on earth were not enough to deter Douglas Preston from a great story."—The Boston Globe

"Breezy, colloquial and sometimes very funny...A very entertaining book."—The Wall Street Journal

"This modern-day archeological adventure and medical mystery reads as rapidly as a well-paced novel, but is a heart-pounding true story."—Shelf Awareness (Starred Review)

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