A thrilling and beloved account of travel and adventure in Central America - rife with tales of jaguars, hostile natives, and the discovery of the Mayan ruins - now available for the first time in a single volume.
The dangerous jungles of the Yucatan were virtually unknown to Americans in the early 19th century - that is, until John Lloyd Stephen's 'Incidents Of Travel In Yucatan' took its firm hold on the imagination of the reading public, Now, for the first time, National Geographic offers a fully illustrated single volume of this adventure classic, complete with an introduction by adventure expert Anthony Brandt.
'Incidents Of Travel In Yucatan' details the trek taken by Stephens and his companion Frederick Catherwood, whose illustrations illuminate the text. Through the eyes of these two men, readers see the Yucatan villages of 150 years ago, in which Indians used cacao beans instead of money and lived among ruins covered for hundreds of years by dense vegetations. The book also chronicles the immense dangers of the journey - both Stephens and Catherwood had to battle malaria, snakebites, jaguar attacks, impenetrable jungles, and difficult rivers. However in doing so they were able to open up an unknown and fascinating past and were the first to discover and study the ancient Maya ruins of the peninsula.
An undisputed classic 'Incidents Of Travel In Yucatan' is as vibrant today as it was upon its publication in 1843. With this superb new edition, published as a single volume for the first time in decades, readers can enjoy one of their favorite books in its most beautiful form.
