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Product details
Paperback: 510 pages
Publisher: Andesite Press (August 19, 2017)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1375468480
ISBN-13: 978-1375468480
Product Dimensions:
6.1 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
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Shockingly shocking! This just arrived. My reaction [one star] is not to the content, which I've barely explored and still believe I'm going to thoroughly enjoy, but is given for the horrible quality of this reprinted version! I bought it partly based on the assurance that it is part of the "Classic Reprint Series" including some stuff about teaming with Microsoft to preserve old and threatened books. This reprint is shockingly shocking! It really looks like somebody had a bad copy from the local library, and then used a bad copy machine to make bad copies of it! Page one (which is numbered page 9 for some reason), for instance, missed the left margin, so the whole page has the left side of the sentence cut off. The author "...embarked on board e British brig Mary Ann, Hampton, master, for the y of Honduras..." Page 10 (remember, these are the first and second pages of the actual text) is such a poor quality copy it can't even be read! The illustrations are fuzzy and have black specs all around them. Today on Amazon it's possible to find the original, in "Used- Very Good" condition volumes 1&2 from 1843, available for $800. Wouldn't it make sense for them to have located the best copy available, copied it with the best technology available and presented that to the happy reader instead of this sorry excuse?
For some reason, Amazon was selling only volume 2 when I bought it for Kindle. I was enthralled at the account of the author's extraordinary 1839 journey from Costa Rica to the Yucatán—while civil war raged throughout Central America—in search of Mayan sites. The author's brilliance and erudition, his dry wit, his affectionate portrayals of locals met en route, his awe and respect for the advanced but ruined civilization he encountered, were enhanced by the meticulous illustrations of Frederick Catherwood.Volume 1 relates the first half of the journey; and, I must say, the lesser half. In its 400+ pages, Stephens and Catherwood explore exactly one Mayan site, Copán. The rest of the pages relate the journey by boat from the U.S. to Belize, onward to Guatemala, overland to the capital, various excursions and diversions, ending with Stephens crossing from Nicaragua to Honduras. A great deal of time is spent on a blow-by-blow account of the civil war which tore Central America, until then a unitary state, into warring fragments. While this would no doubt have fascinated Stephens's contemporary audience, the exhaustive detail may try the patience of all but scholars. Further, plans were underfoot to build a transoceanic canal through Nicaragua; and Stephens spends a great deal of time exploring the region and discussing the plan's feasibility. Up to Teddy Roosevelt's administration, Nicaragua and the Colombian isthmus (now Panama) were both in play as potential sites for such a canal, but we now know how it turned out, and the detail lavished on the losing proposition, again, might strain the lay reader's interest.I would recommend starting with Volume II of this book, and then reading Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. Both are fascinating accounts, chock full of one fascinating Mayan site after another, and offer the thrill of original discovery that Stephens and Catherwood shared during their groundbreaking expeditions.
I have read this book several times and own both the paperback version and the Kindle one. I have recommended it to many friends and have given it as a gift on several occasions as it is a historical must read on Central America.A masterful depiction of Central America in the early 1800's. Easy to read, a travel log that reflects the curiosity of a scholar, but written in a straightforward, easy to read language. Almost naive in some passages, Stephens admires the people and its natural surroundings, describes them vividly from his very American point of view. His relentless commitment to explain and understand better "The Lost Civilization" in Meso-America is a timeless inspiration.Lawyer, Diplomat, Explorer and Entrepeneur, he played a role as a precursor of the Panama Canal, the Panama Isthmus Railroad, which served as a shorter, safer route to California. This books tell us of the times just before big things were about to happen in Central America and at worldwide scale.The contributions of this book to Maya archaeology are huge (the detailed descriptions and beautiful drawings by Frederick Catherwood of Maya sites), basically by putting many archaeological remains later looted in its original context. A must read for archaeology students around the world and for anyone interested in Central America in the 19th Century. Mr. Stephens, your place in history is guaranteed through this book, the others you wrote and your contributions to the cause of a inter-oceanic route through Central America and the advancement of Maya archaeology.
This classic account of John Lloyd Stephens' journey through Central America and Mexico in the 1830s has never been cheaper, but at the "cost" of missing the Catherwood illustrations. What do you want for 99 cents, I know. The text was obviously scanned but not proofed as there are numerous typos. Despite its faults, Stephens' indomitable spirit--persisting through revolution, horrendous roads, stubborn animals, malevolent natives, and the political convulsions endemic to the region--can only leave lesser mortals in awe.Note that this is Vol. 2, and Vol. 1 is not available on Kindle at this time. Vol. 2 opens in the midst of a revolution in Central America, and Stephens refers to characters and events assuming the reader is already familiar with them. Once past the first few chapters, though, we are carried along by unfolding events.
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