Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucat

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"description": "LibriVox recording of Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, Vol. 2 by John Lloyd Stephens (1805 - 1852).
Read by Sue Anderson
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The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. 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, \u201csolemn, stern and well fitted to excite terror,\u201d covered on the sides with hieroglyphics, and with workmanship \u201cequal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians.\u201d Stephens records their discoveries and also his travels in Central America, while Catherwood directs his immense artistic talent to illustrating views of Mayan architecture. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán was a best seller in its day and has been called an \u201cIndiana Jones\u201d saga by modern reviewers. (Summary by Sue Anderson)

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