The Ruins of Central America
Author : Désiré Charnay
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : Désiré Charnay
Publisher :
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 1881
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Author : George Byron Gordon
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Page : 14 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Central America
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Author : William M. Ferguson
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,7 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
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"Of the many Maya sites in Central America, none can compare with the tropical beauty and architecture grandeur of Tikal, Copán, and Quiriguá. This book focuses on these three sites because, during the halcyon days of the Classic Maya, A.D. 250 to 900, they were the great centers of religious ceremony, of political and commercial activity, and of residence and power of the kings and nobles."--Dust jacket.
Author : Allen Thorndike Rice
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Page : 108 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 1880
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Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 2017-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1455540021
The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller, named one of the best books of the year by The Boston Globe and National Geographic: acclaimed journalist Douglas Preston takes readers on a true adventure deep into the Honduran rainforest in this riveting narrative about the discovery of a lost civilization -- culminating in a stunning medical mystery. Since the days of conquistador Hernán Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. Indigenous tribes speak of ancestors who fled there to escape the Spanish invaders, and they warn that anyone who enters this sacred city will fall ill and die. In 1940, swashbuckling journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City of the Monkey God-but then committed suicide without revealing its location. Three quarters of a century later, bestselling author Doug Preston joined a team of scientists on a groundbreaking new quest. In 2012 he climbed aboard a rickety, single-engine plane carrying the machine that would change everything: lidar, a highly advanced, classified technology that could map the terrain under the densest rainforest canopy. In an unexplored valley ringed by steep mountains, that flight revealed the unmistakable image of a sprawling metropolis, tantalizing evidence of not just an undiscovered city but an enigmatic, lost civilization. Venturing into this raw, treacherous, but breathtakingly beautiful wilderness to confirm the discovery, Preston and the team battled torrential rains, quickmud, disease-carrying insects, jaguars, and deadly snakes. But it wasn't until they returned that tragedy struck: Preston and others found they had contracted in the ruins a horrifying, sometimes lethal-and incurable-disease. Suspenseful and shocking, filled with colorful history, hair-raising adventure, and dramatic twists of fortune, THE LOST CITY OF THE MONKEY GOD is the absolutely true, eyewitness account of one of the great discoveries of the twenty-first century.
Author : Martin Ingham Townsend
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 15,72 MB
Release : 1895
Category : History
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Author : M. Lazzara
Publisher : Springer
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,98 MB
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0230623271
This book highlights the ruin's prolific resurgence in Latin American cultural life at the turn of the millennium and sharply reveals a stirring creative drive by artists and intellectuals toward ethical reflection and change in the midst of ruinous devastation.
Author : Louis Edward Hills
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Page : 60 pages
File Size : 44,61 MB
Release : 1919
Category : Central America
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Author : Juan Galindo
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Page : pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 1820
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Author : David Adamson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 2023-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1000857719
The Ruins of Time (1975) examines the conquest of the Maya by the Spanish, the discoveries and adventures of the first travellers among them, the dramatic journeys of Victorian archaeologists and explorers and also contemporary attempts to unravel Maya hieroglyphs.