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Title: Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens, Karl Ackerman ISBN: 1-56098-210-1 Publisher: Smithsonian Inst Pr Pub. Date: 01 May, 1993 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $33.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: timless classic
Comment: This is a Must read for anyone with even a passing interest in the mayan culture. Still easy to read even though it was written over 150 years ago! Imagine you are one of the first explores to adventure into the the jungles of the Yucatan and vist the ancient cities hidden in the jungle. I wish I had read this book before My trip to the Yucatan, would have made my trip that much more enjoyable! The Catherwood engravings are spectacular!
Rating: 5
Summary: ADVENTURE TRAVEL WRIGHTING AT ITS BEST!
Comment: This is a must read for any one with an interest in the ancient Mayan culture an ruin sites. the other reviewers have summed this book up great, but I just wanted to throw in my two cents.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unabridged John Lloyd Stephens
Comment: And real full strength Catherwood illustrations.
Unlike some of the recent re-edited editions of Stevens' and Catherwood's work, this Dover Publications edition Volume One of the two volume "Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan presents dense, complex, and revealing insights into a brilliant writer's impressions of travel in nascent Central American countries.
Regarding his charge to enter into diplomatic relations with the governments of these countries, Stephens reports, "I was not able to find one..."
In following Stephens eccentric and sometimes high-handed travels through these unsettled societies, we are by contrast in his ruminations given glimpses of the political and social climate in the United States at that time - a commercially predatory, exuberantly expansionist, segregated society. Despite the biases of his times, Stephens is always adaptable to the ways of his hosts.
Although not great in number, Catherwood's illustrations of the stelae at Copan are truly great. His revealing comments on the difficulty of adapting his Western perception enough to capture the scenes even with the help of his camera lucida - tell us just how unusual the sculptural forms were.
As a team - Stephen's enthusiasm and wry humor and Catherwood's sublime skill and dogged persistence - consistently produced great and discerning works of scientific and historical value.
It should be illegal for anyone to edit or abridge these books.
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Title: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan by John Lloyd Stephens, Karl Ackerman, Frederick Catherwood ISBN: 1560986514 Publisher: Smithsonian Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Yucatan Before and After the Conquest by Diego De, Bp., Landa ISBN: 0486236226 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1978 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Lost Cities of the Mayas: The Life, Art, and Discoveries of Frederick Catherwood by Fabio Bourbon ISBN: 0789206234 Publisher: Abbeville Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Popol Vuh: The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life by Dennis Tedlock ISBN: 0684818450 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land by John Lloyd Stephens, Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen ISBN: 0486291553 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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