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Author Carlsen, William, author.

Title Jungle of stone : the true story of two men, their extraordinary journey, and the discovery of the lost civilization of the Maya / William Carlsen.

Publication Info. New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  972.81 CARLSEN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  972.81 CARLSEN    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  972.81 CAR    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  972.81 CAR    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  972.81 CARLSEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Whiton Branch - Non Fiction  972.81 CARLSEN    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  972.81 CAR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  972.81 C19    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  972.81 CARLSEN    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  972.81 CAR    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description xv, 528 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [467]-515) and index.
Contents Expedition. South, 1839 ; Upriver ; Mico Mountain ; Passport ; Monkeys like the wind -- Stephens -- Politics. Ruins ; Carrera ; War ; Malaria ; Crisis at hand ; Reunion -- Catherwood -- Archaeology. Journey into the past ; Palenque ; Uxmal ; "Magnificent" ; Yucatán ; London ; Discoveries ; Chichén Itzá ; Tuloom ; Home -- The Maya -- Friends. Views of ancient monuments ; Steam ; Panama ; Crossing the isthmus ; Together again ; Missing.
Summary 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.
Subject Catherwood, Frederick.
Stephens, John L., 1805-1852.
Archaeological expeditions -- Mexico.
Archaeological expeditions -- Central America.
Explorers -- Mexico -- Biography.
Explorers -- Central America -- Biography.
Mayas -- Antiquities.
ISBN 9780062407399 (hardcover) : $28.99
0062407392 (hardcover) : $28.99
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