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![]() ![]() ![]() of Stephens's Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán was a best seller in its day and has been called an “Indiana Jones” saga by modern reviewers. John Lloyd Stephens, who had also entered the railroad business and was. Their guide, slashing through the rampant growth with his machete, leads them to a stone column, fourteen feet high, sculptured on the front with a portrait of a man, “solemn, stern and well fitted to excite terror,” covered on the sides with hieroglyphics, and with workmanship “equal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians.” Stephens records their discoveries and also his travels in Central America, while Catherwood directs his immense artistic talent to illustrating views of Mayan architecture. In this work, and in his other masterpiece Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, he tells the story of his travels to some 50 ruined Mayan cities. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. But Stephen's two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 18 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. Harper & Brothers, 1841 - Central America. ![]() The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan. Download cover art Download CD case insert Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. ![]()
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