The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. A Journey Through Yucatán's Maya Ruins, Cultural Heritage, and Early Twentieth-Century LifeBy Channing Arnold, Frederick J. Tabor Frost
Length13h 2m
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The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan frames the Yucatán peninsula as a landscape where ancient Maya monuments, colonial inheritances, and early twentieth-century travel converge. Blending descriptive travel narrative, archaeological observation, ethnographic encounter, and historical reflection, the volume records journeys among ruins, towns, forests, and haciendas. Its evocative treatment of monumental sites and difficult routes captures both the allure of Maya antiquity and the interpretive habits of a period when American and European readers increasingly sought the Americas' ancient past. Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost write as travelers and cultural interpreters whose collaboration joins firsthand expeditionary reporting to an informed interest in archaeology and regional history. Their perspectives belong to a broader Anglophone travel literature shaped by exploration, collecting, and the emergent professional study of Mesoamerica. At the same time, their account preserves impressions of a living Yucatán, placing Indigenous communities, Spanish-language culture, and material remains in uneasy but revealing relation. Recommended for readers of travel writing, Maya studies, and the history of archaeological imagination, this book offers a valuable single-volume encounter with multiple ways of seeing Yucatán. Its mixture of observation, speculation, and historical description invites critical attention to both the region represented and the assumptions through which it was made legible.
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GenreTravel
Length13 hrs 2 mins
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Publish dateJun 2, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan (Annotated)
2PREFACE
3CHAPTER I A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF MEXICO
4CHAPTER II MEXICO CITY AND THE MEXICANS
5CHAPTER III YUCATAN AND HER HISTORY
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6CHAPTER IV FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF YUCATAN
7CHAPTER V A YUCATECAN BREAKFAST, AND OTHER "SIGHTS"
8CHAPTER VI AMID THE PALACES OF THE ITZAS
9CHAPTER VII VALLADOLID AND AFTER
10CHAPTER VIII IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CORTES
11CHAPTER IX EL MECO TO PUERTO MORELOS
12CHAPTER X IN SEARCH OF THE MAYAN MECCA
13CHAPTER XI ON THE SOUTHERN SIERRAS
14CHAPTER XII COPAN AND QUIRIGUA
15CHAPTER XIII PALENQUE, MENCHÉ, AND ON THE USUMACINTA
16CHAPTER XIV THE ANCIENT MAYANS
17CHAPTER XV WHO WERE THE MAYANS?
18CHAPTER XVI WHO WERE AMERICA'S FIRST ARCHITECTS?
19CHAPTER XVII THE AGE OF THE RUINS
20CHAPTER XVIII HIEROGLYPHICS AND PAINTINGS
21CHAPTER XIX SLAVERY ON THE HACIENDAS
22CHAPTER XX YUCATAN AS IT IS TO-DAY AND THE YUCATECANS
23CHAPTER XXI THE GREEN GOLD OF YUCATAN
24CHAPTER XXII FLORA AND FAUNA
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