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Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (Volume Two)
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan - Volume Two
Author: John Stephens
"¿perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever published." Edgar Allen Poe The jungles of the Yucatan were little known in the 1840s, and they were dangerous. John Lloyd Stephens first visited the region in 1839 and wrote a book about the experience that went through 12 printings, making him one of America's first bestselling writer...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780486209272
ISBN-10: 048620927X
Publication Date: 6/1/1963
Pages: 352
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Publisher: Dover Publications
Book Type: Paperback
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"This is one of the great books of archaological discovery, and at the same time one of the few really absorbing books of travel. Before STephens' expedition to Yucatan in 1841, little was known of tha tcountry; the Maya Indian culture, for example, had not been discovered." 127 engravings.


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