With over 80 books in our library, this year we're taking some time every week to highlight one of the books on the Eckhartz bookshelf. This week's book is the incredibly exciting search for a lost city. TV producer Tom Weinberg wrote Chasing the Lost City, and the photographs are also spectacular.
For more than 20 years, TV producer Weinberg was obsessed with the centuries-old legend of the Lost City of the Monkey God, aka Ciudad Blanca, hidden deep in the dense Central American jungle.
The book is composed of his journals written in Honduras, more than 180 stunning photographs and the author’s personal thoughts and feelings about what became a world-famous 21st century discovery. It’s a beautiful coffee table book to be savored and revisited for many years.
The reader is brought into the world of the discoverers, complete with dangerous snakes and insects, gorgeous untouched beauty, exhilaration and a rare disease that came with the discovery of an ancient civilization.
It’s a pictorial and personal companion to the 2017 New York Times bestseller, Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston. Preston calls Weinberg “The Official Chronicler” who wrote on his laptop in the jungles of the Mosquitia. Chasing the Lost City sparkles with the insights of a first-time explorer with pithy, sometimes self-deprecating and brutally honest reflections. The compelling images, many of which are video still frames from an upcoming documentary, have been beautifully orchestrated by designer Elan Soltes.
