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Douglas Preston

Douglas Preston has written more than thirty books, including “ The Lost City of the Monkey God.”

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Has an Old Soviet Mystery at Last Been Solved?
dept. of exploration ·

Douglas Preston writes about a new explanation for the fate of the Dyatlov party, a group of Soviet cross-country skiers, whose deaths, in 1959, in the freezing mountains of the Urals, have become a topic of endless speculation.

THE LOST MAN
a reporter at large ·

A REPORTER AT LARGE about the discovery of an ancient skeleton in Kennewick, Washington... On Sunday, July 28, 1996, in the middle of the afternoon, two …