Akanis - Lost City Of Amazonia

by Karl Joseph Eckstein

Overview

A detachment of U.S. Marines is put on board an Air Force TR-3B. Their vessel is forced down in a dense jungle inhabited by crocodiles, killer cats, poisonous snakes, giant anacondas, savage cannibals and headhunters, and a legendary beast called Mapinguari.
Their mission leads them to a lost city that is invisible to radar, flying aircraft, and orbiting satellites. The ancient city with its Mayan pyramids and primitive stone buildings is occupied by hundreds of natives and a group of German civilians.
Corporal Steiner and beautiful Ingamar Dornbusch must descend the stone stairway to Ixalba, the ancient Maya's 'Place Of Fright.'
Fleeing from a gang of armed treasure seekers, Private Mead and a group of civilians discover an underground city where hundreds of human skeletons are strewn about the streets. Will the unknown forces that claimed the lives of those ancient people also claim their lives?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781477685488
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	03/01/2014
Pages:	358
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.74(d)

About the Author

Karl Joseph Eckstein was born in New York City in 1939. He often explored the densely forested areas of Inwood Hill Park, fished from the rocky shoreline of the Hudson River, explored historic forts, trekked through the forests of the Catskills and Adirondack Mountains, and spent untold hours wandering through the Museum Of Natural History.
Those early adventures created an ongoing desire to visit other strange and interesting places.
In 1965, after a four year tour in the U.S. Marines, Karl and his wife relocated from Hawaii to Roswell, New Mexico, home of the alleged UFO crash site of 1945.
In 1967, they moved to South Florida, where he took courses in photography and writing. To supplicate their income, Karl wrote nature and wildlife photojournalism articles for Florida Living, Focus America and other publications. His work occasionally led to anomalous experiences such as wading chest deep in the alligator infested waters of the Everglades. Oftentimes, he and his wife hiked or canoed through swamp lands inhabited by poisonous water moccasins and rattlesnakes.
Together, they climbed the pyramids of ancient Mayan ruins of Mexico, explored abandoned cliff dwellings of the Anasazi Indians in Arizona, and hiked through numerous underground caverns. Those adventures and others, such as repelling from Marine Corps helicopters, and free diving and scuba diving in the Pacific Ocean, have provided Karl with firsthand background material that he often calls upon to create the Action-Adventure spirit of his books.
Karl's stories are totally fictional; however, they are solidly based on historical facts and on his personal experiences. Many of the settings are actual places that he has visited. The technical data and other information pertinent to his stories are the result of untold hours of ongoing research.