The Americans of the 19th century were interested in Mayan and Aztec lore.............as we are today........in the 21st century.........

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,  ...

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Edgar Allan Poe called it "perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever published." The historian David McCullough deemed it "a classic, thrilling piece of work [that] can be seen as the beginning of American archeology." It is Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatán, by John Lloyd Stephens.

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Oct 28, 2014 - When Edgar Allan Poe died in October 1849—from mysterious ... on abook about Poe and place, thinks Poe's constant wanderings had to do  ...

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... were uncovered during a White House-directed search of Central America to ... in 1841 Edgar Allen Poe, a sometime literary critic, called it the best travel book