The Lost Tomb
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4.0 • 1 Rating
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- 285,00 kr
Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
This collection of macabre true stories is chilling and perplexing right down to the bone. Douglas Preston is famous for his thrillers, but here he draws on his journalism background to explore real-life tales that are darker than anything found in fiction—all with a focus on the mysteries found in bones and archaeological artifacts. Preston details discoveries that inspired all kinds of fascinating questions: What do we really know about the origins of Native Americans? Why did hundreds of people die by a lake in the Himalayas? Did a famous archaeologist make his reputation by perpetrating a hoax? Preston probes like an investigative reporter, analyzes like a scientist, and unfolds each story like a literary master. It’s no wonder that some of these tales actually inspired his own fiction. Narrator Will Collyer feels like a news correspondent crossed with a seasoned campfire storyteller—and The Lost Tomb is an ideal companion for a dark and stormy night.
