Jungle of stone

By William Carlsen

Subjects: Mayas, Antiquities, Central america, antiquities, Mayas, antiquities, nyt:expeditions-disasters-and-adventures=2016-06-12, Archaeology, Explorers, Biography, Archaeological expeditions, New York Times bestseller

Description: Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.