Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-263).

Part I A Professional Amateur 7 -- Mountain That Cries 15 -- Mystery Stick 23 -- "Treading on Dynamite" 27 -- My Lost-City Guide 35 -- "I Was Lost" 39 -- Coup 43 -- "949 Miles to La Ceiba" 47 -- Good-bye 53 -- Part II "Left for Dead but Too Mean to Die" 59 -- hotstuffie92 63 -- "Where There Grow Strange Large Flowers" 67 -- Snakes and Valium 71 -- "Definitely on the Way at Last" 75 -- Valley of the Princess 77 -- "Gold Fever" 83 -- Pancho 87 -- "The Last Outpost" 93 -- Bandit Alley 101 -- "The Equivalent of a State Secret" 105 -- Mortal Threats 109 -- Dance of the Dead Monkeys 113 -- Catacamas 117 -- "Green Hell" 119 -- Loco Men 125 -- "All Had Faded into Thin Air" 131 -- Part III Jungle That Disappeared 137 -- "Beyond Hope" 141 -- Looking for Camp Ulak 145 -- "No Trace of Ruins" 153 -- Calling Home 157 -- "The Lost City of the Monkey God" 165 -- Our Time with the Pirates 169 -- "The Jungle Does Not Seem Like It Wants Us to Go" 177 -- "Please Come Home" 181 -- "Ice in Our Glasses!" 183 -- Ernesto's Story 185 -- "This Strange Civilization" 189 -- What We Learned from the Tawahkas 195 -- Part IV Daisy 203 -- Gateway to the Lost Cities 207 -- "They Had Orders to Shoot" 211 -- My Lowest Low 215 -- "I'm Having the Time of My Life" 217 -- Journey to the Crosses 223 -- "From Journalist and Explorer and Spy to a Father" 227 -- Morde Theory 235 -- Lost City 245.