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" She would go on to write about her travels in this region in the 1934 classic The Valleys of the Assassins , while her mapping and exploratory achievements would earn her an award from England 's Royal Geographical Society and , later , a knighting by the Queen of England.Stark risked her life to journey to this part of Lorestan , searching for a Bronze Age hidden treasure that was rumored to be stashed among these hills , but she never found it , leaving behind a lingering mystery . In a February 15 letter to the district wildlife office , desperate village leaders , explaining their decision to hire three more bush doctors , maintained that the wounded lion escaped capture because " it has taken on a new strategy . Until quite recently subterranean exploration remained a game ruled by gentleman 's ethics , in which civility reigned and grievances between different exploration teams , if there really were any , were kept private . Seeing an aye-aye is considered very bad luck to many superstitious residents of Madagascar , the African island country where these animals live in the wild . Yet many experts , such as former UN Chief Weapons Inspector Hans Blix , believe it 's a cover for the secret production of nuclear weapons.There are myriad implications of this difference of opinion — thankfully it would be mostly theory and rhetoric during my month-long stay , this past May and June — but one tangible result is that a country just opening to Western tourism has now been clamped shut and braced for an international showdown .