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EXPLORING YUCATAN: A Traveler's Anthology

FOR CENTURIES, explorers, adventurers, artists, naturalists and archeologists have recorded their experiences of work and travel in Yucatan: Bernal Díaz del Castillo, Bishop Diego de Landa and John Lloyd Stephens among many others.

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Their vivid memoirs give us historic insights into the attitudes of the past, document how conditions have changed over time, and help to illuminate the present in this exotic tropical region of Mayan Mexico.

Now, for the first time, a broad and varied selection of these classic writings have been excerpted and collected in one volume to entertain and enlighten today's traveler to Yucatan. The selections are organized geographically around the major Mayan sites and regions of the Yucatan peninsula, from Campeche on the Gulf coast to the Caribbean coast of Quintana Roo and its Maya hinterland.

The narratives are accompanied by numerous historical and new illustrations, including some by Richard Perry, who also selected and edited the anthology. With maps, glossary, bibliography and full index.

Essential reading for the armchair and active traveler along the Ruta Maya. A companion volume to our guidebook MAYA MISSIONS

C O N T E N T S Preface Introduction Timeline The Authors Chapter One: First Impressions Chapter Two: From Campeche to Mérida Chapter Three: Uxmal and the Puuc Hills Chapter Four: Izamal and the North Coast Chapter Five: Chichén Itzá Chapter Six: From Valladolid to Cobá Chapter Seven: Cruzob Country Chapter Eight: The Caribbean Coast

$20.00

320 pages 6"x 9"
ISBN 0-9620811-4-0

Now available direct from Espadaña Press. Order online or from your favorite book dealer.

List of featured authors:

Channing Arnold	Frans Blom	Peter Canby
Désiré Charnay	Antonio de Ciudad Real	James Cook
Bernal Díaz del Castillo	Macduff Everton	David Freidel
Thomas Gann	Richard Halliburton	Diego de Landa
Tomás De La Torre	Augustus & Alice Le Plongeon	Teobert Maler
Gregory Mason	Alfred & Ann Maudslay	Henry Mercer
William Miller	Arthur Morelet	Sylvanus Morley
Earl & Anne Morris	Benjamin Norman	Frederick Albion Ober
Michel Peissel	Richard & Rosalind Perry	Nelson Reed
Phillips Russell	Juan Cueva Santillán	Robert Stacy-Judd
John Lloyd Stephens	Edward Thompson	J. Eric Thompson
Alfonso Villa Rojas	Jean-Frédéric Waldeck	Wilhelm, Prince of Sweden

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