John Lloyd Stephens

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

New ed. by Karl Ackerman

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on trips to Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in 1839 and 1842, the author describes his findings of a dozen archaeological sites

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Smithsonian Institute Press
• 1996
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: März 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 179mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 532g
• ISBN-13: 9781560986515
• ISBN-10: 1560986514
• Artikelnr.: 13649247

Autorenporträt

John Lloyd Stephens was an American explorer whose reports on long-forgotten Mayan ruins in Central America caused a resurgence of popular and scholarly interest in the ancient people.

Rezensionen

Perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever published. Edgar Allan Poe

Through Stephens s eyes, readers see Yucatan villages of 150 years ago, when Indians used cacao beans instead of money in their marketplaces; a Catholic/indigenous hybrid funeral that seems no more barbaric than the crude medical treatments rendered by another of Stephens s travel companions, Dr. Cabot, on their Mayan guides. One of the first to acknowledge that indigenous Americans might have built the great American pyramids and temples, not Egyptians, Greeks or one of the lost tribes of Israel, Stephens voiced a rare, nonjudgmental viewpoint in a time when European cultural elitism was the unquestioned norm. Not just a curiosity for archeology buffs or cultural studies types, this is also an informative, intriguing guide for armchair travelers. Publishers Weekly