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Title: The Archaeologist Was a Spy: Sylvanus G. Morley and the Office of Naval Intelligence by Charles H. Harris, Louis R. Sadler ISBN: 0-8263-2937-3 Publisher: University of New Mexico Press Pub. Date: March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $32.50 |
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Summary: Searching for German Submarine Bases
Comment: During the First World War, the German submarine forces were a serious threat to allied victory. If the Germans had been able to construct a secret base in some remote corner of Central America, the potential damage to shipping would have been immense. How to ensure that this did not happen before satellite reconnaissance and computerized communications monitoring? One answer the Office of Navel Intelligence devised was to recruit archaeologists who were tramping around the jungles and rivers as part of their academic pursuits.
One of the most productive archaeologist/spies was Sylvanus Griswold Morely, M.A. Harvard, who spent most of the war years journeying through the Central American jungles and rivers in search of ancient ruins and preparing detailed reports on the potential for German exploitation of the remote sites. This book describes his travels in Mexico, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras. Sylvanus was accompanied by cartoonist John Held who prepared detailed maps of their excursions. The book includes some samples of Held's excellent cartography. Charles Harris and Louis Sadler also discuss other academic recruits to naval intelligence and their contributions in Central America.
This is a real niche in the history of American military intelligence and will appeal to those interested in one of the lesser-known war efforts. The appendices contain copies of actual reports submitted by Morely and the book contains copies of pages from the notes taken by the agents as they endured "ticks, mosquitoes, fleas, sand flies, saddle-sores, seasickness, bar-running, indifferent grub, and sometimes no grub at all, rock hard beds, infamous hostelries and even earthquakes."
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Title: Tatiana Proskouriakoff: Interpreting the Ancient Maya by Char Solomon ISBN: 0806134453 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $34.95 |
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Title: Lightning Warrior : Maya Art and Kingship at Quirigua by Matthew G. Looper ISBN: 0292705565 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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Title: Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A Biography by Ian Graham ISBN: 080613450X Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The New Catalog of Maya Heiroglyphs: The Classic Period Inscriptions (Civilization of the American Indian, Vol 247) by Martha J. Macri, Matthew G. Looper ISBN: 0806134976 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Txt) Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $59.95 |
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Title: Maya Palaces and Elite Residences : An Interdisciplinary Approach by Jessica Joyce Christie ISBN: 0292712448 Publisher: Univ of Texas Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $50.00 |
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