story of John Lloyd Stephens, who explored Mexico and Central America looking for ancient Maya ruins in the 1800s

Maya explorer: John Lloyd Stephens and the lost cities of Central America and the Yucatʹan

Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang

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The golden man: A quest for El Dorado

Travel

Saxon House

Search for the Maya: The story of Stephens and Catherwood

The Mayan civilization left the world a legacy of great achievement and innovation ― but the dreams of this culture would not have been realized without the help of paper. Paper enabled the Maya to perfect their calendar, which aided them in planning agricultural development. Paper also enabled them to improve their hieroglyphic writing, enhancing their oral traditions, and it helped them to plan and construct their extraordinary temples and palaces. For centuries, however, little was known about how the art of papermaking evolved in the Americas. In this landmark study Victor Wolfgang von Hagen ― a noted historian and scholar of paper and papermaking ― traces, for the first time, the development of papermaking among the Aztec and Mayan cultures. Given the scarcity of surviving materials ― of the thousands of paper sheets and paper rolls manufactured by these early craftsmen, only three complete Maya codices have survived ― this achievement is remarkable indeed. Painstakingly researched, the book presents a comprehensive and detailed account of ancient American papermaking, including thorough discussions of the specific processes and materials used. Along the way, von Hagen reveals a wealth of little-known facts uncovered in the course of his prodigious research in the field and elsewhere. The resulting work was so highly regarded it was chosen by the American Institute of Graphic Arts as one of the fifty best books of 1944. Complete with extensive editorial apparatus including an introduction, appendix, notes, and bibliography, this extraordinary study also contains six illustrations and 81 photographs that help to tell the fascinating story of papermaking in the Americas. The Aztec and Maya Papermakers is an essential addition to the libraries of historians, anthropologists, and students of paper or papermaking.

The Aztec and Maya Papermakers (Lettering, Calligraphy, Typography)

Arts & Photography

Sculpture

Dover `

Discusses the culture, religion, government, and ideals of the Incan society that thrived in South America until the Spanish Conquest in 1532.

The Incas: People of the Sun

Children's Books

Collins+World

Book by Von Hagen, Victor Wolfgang

The Germanic People in America

History

Americas

University of Oklahoma Press

The story of the Inca Empire's government highway through the Andes, and later used by the Spaniards to defeat the Inca's.

The royal road of the Inca

Gordon Cremonesi

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Maya Explorer: John Lloyd Stephens and the Lost Cities of Central America and the Yucatan

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The Aztec and Maya papermakers

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Crafts & Hobbies

Hacker Art Books

The green world of the naturalists; a treasury of five centuries of natural history in South America

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Greenberg Publishers

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