Edgar Allen Poe read some stuff fellow Americans had written while they were traveling in Mexico or C. America or S. America.............he even wrote a poem.............El Dorado..........

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan (Abridged): John Lloyd ...

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Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Volume I (Incidents. +... Edgar Allen Poe called it "perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever .... The original book is great reading for the style with which Stephens writes,  .