![]() This does not stop self-styled white explorers, however, like the 1930s Theodore Morde (Stewart's muse) and twenty-first-century Steve Elkins (Preston's principal protagonist) from incessantly poking around eastern Honduras until they inevitably stumble on their personal Macchu Pichu in the treacherously muddy bootprints of the parade of prevaricators and looters who have gone before. Nevertheless, Indy, there never was a Monkey God, nor a White City for him to rule, and there certainly was never a vast and trackless jungle wilderness in the Honduran Moskitia, untarnished by the hand of man. ![]() The figure of Indiana Jones, whom Stewart and Preston evoke quite regularly, refuses to return empty-handed to his financial backers in New York. xiii and 263 pp., bibliography, maps, notes, photos. viii and 326 pp., photos, sources and bibliography, index. ![]()
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