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A Glimpse at Guatemala

Name: A Glimpse at Guatemala
Author: Alfred Percival Maudslay

by Alfred Percival Maudslay, Anne Cary Maudslay

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A Glimpse at Guatemala And Some Notes on the Ancient Monuments of Central America

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Project Gutenberg

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Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2014-12-17

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Guatemala -- Description and travel Central America -- Antiquities Mayas Yucatán Peninsula -- Antiquities Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Antiquities Guatemala -- Antiquities Maudslay, Anne Cary, -1926 Maudslay, Alfred Percival, 1850-1931 F1461

About the authors

Alfred Percival Maudslay

1850–1931

Best known for opening up the world of ancient Maya ruins to careful modern study, this British explorer and archaeologist combined fieldwork, photography, and exacting records in a way that set a new standard. His travels through Central America helped preserve details of monuments and inscriptions that might otherwise have been lost.

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Anne Cary Maudslay

d. 1926

An American traveler and co-author whose account of Guatemala blends vivid journey writing with a close look at Maya sites. Her best-known book grew out of a Central American trip she made with archaeologist Alfred Percival Maudslay in the 1890s.

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