Books like Quest for the city of gold by James Patterson

David Grann’s investigative narrative unravels the mystery of British explorer Percy Fawcett’s 1925 disappearance while he sought the legendary Lost City of Z beneath the Amazon’s dense jungle.

A cryptic code found on a former pirate shore propels William Legrand and his companions into a daring chase for buried treasure.

Twin siblings Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York, following clues left by their missing father to complete their parents’ perilous treasure‑searching quest.

An action-packed middle‑grade adventure where a pair of twins travel to Africa in search of buried treasure, while dealing with a missing person mystery.

A young girl uncovers a mysterious connection to Shakespeare's grave.

Arkane, Nina Wilde and her husband Eddie Chase, an Interpol duo, race across South America to locate the mythical El Dorado, battling smuggling syndicates, lost artifacts and betrayals in a pulse‑quickening adventure.

The Kidd children discover a forbidden treasure while investigating a missing person case in China and Germany.

Three siblings, a Highland Scottish playboy and their friends battle an evil breakfast cereal empire that has kidnapped the Queen of England and threatens the world with magical milkcakes.

Explore a hidden subterranean world as Axel and his uncle uncover a mysterious passage, descend into volcanic depths, navigate underground rivers and prehistoric threats, all while racing against danger that could trap them forever.

A magical chocolate shop in London, where children must battle evil villains to save the world from a recipe that could destroy the universe.

When twins Jack and Jaide face a breach to the Evil Dimension in Portland, they must outsmart a rival troubletwister, rescue Grandma X’s sister Lottie from the vortex, and protect their town before darkness closes in.

An adventurous graphic novel by Hope Larson that follows a pair of siblings on a daring voyage in search of buried treasure, complete with vivid color maps and illustrations.

Douglas Preston's Cities of Gold is a riveting account of his journey in the footsteps of Coronado, the legendary 16th-century explorer and conquistador who led the first European expedition through the American Southwest. Preston and a friend, Walter Nelson, set out on horseback across one thousand miles of vast deserts and unknown mountains retracing Coronado's search for the fabled Seven Cities of Gold. Forced to battle extremes of heat and cold, impenetrable mesquite. Thickets, bad water, and paralyzing drought, they nonetheless find the country awesome in its scale and beauty - with much of it so untouched that it is recognizable from descriptions in Coronado's reports. Where Preston encounters various people - cowboys, ranchers, crazy old eccentrics - he listens to them talk about their lives, about growing up, and how the West has changed. His journey also takes him through a number of isolated Indian settlements, where he meets. Some of the actual descendants of the people who fought Coronado. At the heart of the book is Preston's search for a new understanding of that shocking moment when Europeans first fought Indians within the borders of what would become America - and the fatal consequences that resulted. For what Preston finds when he rediscovers the actual ruins of the Seven Cities of Gold, as well as in the haunting stories of the Indians, and the reminiscences of the old cowboys and. Ranchers, is not the triumph of Manifest Destiny, but something far more complex and mysterious. "The great myth of the American West," Preston writes, "is that there was a winning of it." Cities of Gold weaves in his adventures along the trail with unforgettable portraits of such Indian leaders as Geronimo, Cochise, and the Zuni governor Palowahtiwa, lively stories of gun battles and feuds, and memories of cattle drives, dust, and the vanished open range. Preston's. Vivid descriptions of the landscapes, people and history of the American Southwest put him in the company of such distinguished travel writers as Paul Theroux, Ian Frazier, and Jonathan Raban. In the end, Cities of Gold leaves the reader with an indelible portrait of the Southwest - as it was when Europeans first saw it and what it has become today. Like Edward Abbey's Desert Solitaire, it has the unmistakable ring of a classic.