Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan: Volumes I &II

Few explorers have had the experience of uncovering a civilization almost entirely unknown to the world. But Stephen’s two expeditions to Mexico and Central America in 1839 and 1841 yielded the first solid information on the culture of the Maya Indians. In addition to being a great book on archaeological discovery, Stephen’s work is also a great travel book. Telling of journeying by mule back on narrow paths over unimaginable deep ravines, through sloughs of mud and jungles of heavy vegetation, describing dangers of robbery, revolution, fever, mosquitoes and more exotic insects, Stephen’s narrative remains penetrating and alive.

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
Date Published: 1969
Book Condition: Good softcovers with minor surface and edge wear to covers. Previous owner’s name crossed out in black on the front endpaper of both books. Minimal tanning and spotting to book edges. Otherwise, unmarked copies internally.