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Peter O. Koch
Daring exploits and astounding achievements were common for two 19th century adventurers–John Lloyd Stephens, a New York lawyer and best-selling author, and Frederick Catherwood, a London architect and renowned topographical…
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Ruins, Revolution, and Manifest Destiny: John Lloyd Stephens Creates the Maya locates in Stephens’s immensely popular nineteenth-century travel narratives (1841, 1843) the sources of American perceptions of Central America and…
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In 1839, John Lloyd Stephens and his travelling companion Frederick Catherwood ventured into the rain forest of Guatemala and braved Indian uprisings, road agents, heat and biting insects in search…
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John Lloyd Stephens
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Title: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, etc.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world’s…
Both volumes of John Lloyd Stephens epic accounts of the Yucatan are united in this single volume, complete with over 100 illustrations of encounters on his journeys in Central America…
Perhaps the first modern travelogues still to capture the imaginations of armchair explorers, the mid-19th-century bestselling books of American diplomat and writer JOHN LLOYD STEPHENS (1805-1852) reads like the most…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
Title: Incidents of Travel in the Russian and Turkish Empires.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the…
Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy Land - Vol. II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1862. Hansebooks is editor of the…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…
American writer and diplomat John Lloyd Stephens (1805-52) was effectively the founder of Mesoamerican archaeology. He had earlier made a journey through the Near East, publishing an expanded account in…
General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1842 Original Publisher: Harper
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Title: Incidents of travel in Yucatan.
Author: John LLoyd Stephens
Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana
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Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926 contains a collection of…
Title: Incidents of travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan.
Author: John Lloyd Stephens
Based on Joseph Sabin’s famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500–1926…
Title: Remarks on S.‘s Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia, Petr a, and the Holy Land. First published in the North American Review, No. 102.
Publisher: British Library, Historical Print…
