Two journeys are at the heart of this amazing book about a historical account of a man in the 1940s who tried to find the fabled city called Ciudad Blanca in the jungles of Honduras. The second journey is undertaken by the author who uses the original diaries to find this Shangri-La. Each man has his own demons, and each man searches for what may be their undoing or the discovery of their lifetimes.

"It's said that deep in the jungles of Honduras there lies Ciudad Blanca, the White City, a place that - though it may not exist - has been talked about for centuries. Journalist Christopher S. Stewart, a Brooklyn husband and father, became drawn to stories about the city, especially those of explorer and World War II spy Theodore Morde, who claimed to have found the fabled place in 1940. Interspersing his own 2008 journey with Morde's WWII-era travel notes, Stewart writes of missing his family and juxtaposes the two time periods, showing that both explorers had to worry about not only snakes and bugs but also other humans. Fans of David Grann's excellent The Lost City of Z and Mark Adams' humourous Turn Right at Machu Picchu will want to know more about this similarly themed travelogue." April 2013 Armchair Travel newsletter http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=620534