The American Egypt - a record of travel in Yucatan (1909) (14797521233)

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Title: The American Egypt : a record of travel in Yucatan
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Arnold, Channing Frost, Frederick J. Tabor
Subjects: Mayas Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities
Publisher: London Hutchinson & Co.
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University



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A MAYAN INDIAN. (Frontispiece. THE AMERICAN EGYPT A RECORD OF TRAVEL IN YUCATAN BY CHANNING ARNOLD AND FREDERICK J. TABOR FROST WITH ILLUSTRATIONS, MAP AND PLANS LONDON HUTCHINSON & CO. PATERNOSTER ROW 1909 ALICE ALTHEA ARNOLD PREFACE IN publishing the present volume, it is our privilege toproduce the first book ever written by Englishmen onYucatan—that Egypt of the New World, where, it is nowgenerally admitted, Central American Civilisation reached itsapogee—and to be, for the present at least, the only Englishmenwho can claim to have explored the uncivilised north-easternportions of the Peninsula and the islands of her eastern coast.Mr. A. P. Maudslay, who in 1889 made a lengthy stay at anda detailed survey of Chichen, has done yeoman service toCentral American archaeology by his years of patient work(alas ! too little appreciated) in Guatemala, in the Usumacintadistrict and Southern Mexico. Work, and wonderful work, has been done in civilisedYucatan by bands of earnest labo