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Essential Books These 5 items are available for $80, including
U.S. shipping, a 15% discount (Item no. EXMEX168)		  
Moon Handbook Yucatan Peninsula  •  Lisa and Gary Prado Chandler
GUIDEBOOK •  2009 •  PAPER  • 391 PAGES
A compact, comprehensive travel guide with an excellent overview of the natural history and culture of the region, including Yucatan but also Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. It includes detailed information on hotels, restaurants and attractions. With good site diagrams and sketch maps throughout. (MEX66, $21.95)		   Moon Handbook Yucatan Peninsula
Incidents of Travel in Yucatan  •  John Lloyd Stephens  •  Karl Ackerman
ARCHAEOLOGY •  1996 •  PAPER  • 286 PAGES
A classic, first published in 1841. Stephens chronicles in rich detail his rediscovery of 44 Maya sites in the Yucatan, among them Chichen Itza, Uxmal, Kabah and Tulum. This new one-volume edition, organized geographically, is especially abridged for the visitor. Edgar Allan Poe called the book "perhaps the most interesting travel book ever published." Dozens of modern and archival photographs complement Frederick Catherwood's original drawings. (MEX02, $16.95)		   Incidents of Travel in Yucatan
Maya Art and Architecture  •  Mary Ellen Miller
ART & ARCHITECTURE •  1999 •  PAPER  • 240 PAGES
Organized thematically, this book by Yale art historian Mary Ellen Miller surveys the art and architecture throughout Mayadom. She makes use of the latest discoveries at Tikal, Copan Palenque and other Maya sites to present the range of art from architecture, to sculpture, ceramics and murals. The text is much enhanced by 200 illustrations, 50 in color, including site plans, maps, strikingly rendered reconstructions and color photographs of key temples and buildings. For the traveler interested in better understanding Maya art -- and particularly the glyphs featured on Maya sculpture -- we couldn't recommend this book more highly. (MYA20, $19.95)		   Maya Art and Architecture
The Labyrinth of Solitude  •  Octavio Paz
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1985 •  PAPER  • 398 PAGES • COMING IN MARCH
An enduring classic by the Nobel Prize-winning poet and essayist Octavio Paz. This collection of essays tackles Mexican culture and character. The chapters on the Mexican celebration of the Day of the Dead and the conquest are especially memorable. (MEX08, $14.50)		   The Labyrinth of Solitude
Yucatan Map  •  ITMB
2008 •  MAP
Double-sided, indexed road map of the region at 1:500,000, printed on durable waterproof paper. Coverage divides the area into north and south sections, and includes all of Belize. Latitude and longitude lines are drawn at 30' intervals. Map legend is in English and Spanish. Two Sides. 27 X 37 inches. (MEX04, $12.95)		   Yucatan Map



Also Recommended

Maya World Map  •  Quimera    •  With a 44-page booklet, this colorful map at a scale of 1:1,000.000 covers Campeche, Chiapas, Quintana Roo, Tabasco, and the Yucatan in Mexico along with the Maya regions of Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras in Central America. (MYA59, $8.95)
 		  
Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish  •  Joseph Keenan   • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS  •  Idioms, common mistakes in word usage, and other helpful advice on tackling spoken Spanish. You'll need some foundation to take full advantage of this book -- but even a complete novice will appreciate the author's playful sense of humor. (CAM06, $19.95)
 		  
Moon Handbooks Cancun & Cozumel: Including the Riviera Maya  •  Chicki Mallan   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A comprehensive guide to Cancun and popular nearby destinations, including Isla Mujeres, Isla de Cozumel, Playa del Carmen, Chichen Itza, Tulum and Coba. With 22 town and island maps. (MEX82, $17.95)
 		  
Playa del Carmen, Tulum & the Riviera Maya  •  Joshua Eden Hinsdale   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This comprehensive guide in the Great Destinations series combined practical travel detail with a good overview of the culture and history of the region. (MEX249, $19.95)
 		  
Rough Guide Yucatan  •  Rough Guide   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This compact guide in the informative British series covers the Yucatan and the adjoining Maya sites in Tabasco and Chiapas. (MEX156, $19.99)
 		  
Conquest: Montezuma, Cortes and the Fall of Old Mexico  •  Hugh Thomas   • HISTORY  •  An entertaining and monumental tome on the conquest of Mexico. It's rare to find a work of such scholarship and importance that is also an enjoyable read. (MEX06, $25.00)
 		  
Daily Life in Maya Civilization  •  Robert J. Sharer   • HISTORY  •  In this second edition of this important textbook, revised to incorporate the latest archaeological discoveries, Sharer describes Mayan political life, economy, social structure, religion, writing, warfare and scientific methods. (MYA60, $49.95)
 		  
An Album of Maya Architecture  •  Tatiana Proskouriakoff   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Scholar, artist and architect Proskouriakoff presents breathtaking artistic reconstructions of what Maya cities may have looked like in their heyday in this classic work, first published in 1946. (MYA06, $19.95)
 		  
Breaking the Maya Code  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  Mayan hieroglyphs were a linguistic puzzle until the 1952 breakthrough translation of a Mayan bark-paper text, as Coe explains in this history. The book also includes an extensive discussion of Maya studies and political activism in the wake of the linguistic discovery. (MYA30, $19.95)
 		  
Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, Deciphering the Dynasties of the Ancient Maya  •  Simon Martin  •  Nikolai Grube   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  The history of the Maya dynasties, encompassing biographies of 152 kings and queens, as gleaned from recently deciphered hieroglyphs. An unusual and rewarding book, illustrated in color and black-and-white. (MYA31, $26.95)
 		  
Reading the Maya Glyphs  •  Mark Van Stone  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  This compact illustrated guide to commonly encountered Maya hieroglyphs provides an excellent introduction to Maya writing for the traveler. We also carry Coe's classic text The Maya. ($24.95, Item MYA10) (MYA26, $19.95)
 		  
The Cities of Ancient Mexico  •  Jeremy Sabloff   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  With 152 black-and-white photographs, illustrations and site diagrams, this portrait of ancient civilizations in Mexico features chapters on the Oaxaca Valley, Teotihuacan and Palenque. Written by a renowned Mayanist, it also includes insightful chapters on how archaeologists have reconstructed the past in Mexico. (MEX41, $18.95)
 		  
The Maya  •  Michael Coe   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  The eighth edition of Coe's clear, concise and authoritative, illustrated survey of the Maya. (MYA10, $26.95)
 		  
Tequila Oil, Getting Lost in Mexico  •  Hugh Thomson   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Explorer and archaeologist Thomson (White Rock) revisits his first wild adventures as a teenager in Mexico, venturing from the badlands of Chihuahua to the Yucatan, mixing his observations on Mexico today with travel and astute commentary on the Maya and Aztec. (MEX277, $16.95)
 		  
Time Among the Maya, Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico  •  Ronald Wright   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Wright combines journalism, archaeology and an ear for dialogue in this engaging account of travels among the contemporary Maya. (CAM84, $16.00)
 		  
Mexico in Mind  •  Maria Finn   • ANTHOLOGY  •  John Steinbeck, D.H. Lawrence, Graham Greene, Malcolm Lowry and others offer diverse impressions of the many Mexicos. (MEX178, $14.95)
 		  
Popol Vuh, The Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life  •  Dennis Tedlock   • LITERATURE  •  The definitive, unabridged collection of creation myths and stories of the Quiche people, fundamental to understanding the worldview of the highland Maya. (MYA14, $16.99)
 		  
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom  •  Walter Alvarez   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  A new edition of Alvarez's landmark account of the famous impact crater found in the Yucatan. (CAM68, $16.95)
 		  
Tropical Nature  •  Adrian Forsyth  •  Ken Miyata   • NATURAL HISTORY • FAVORITE  •  A lucid portrait of the tropics as seen by two uncommonly observant and thoughtful field biologists. Its 17 marvelous essays introduce the habitats, ecology, plants and animals of the Central and South American rainforest. (GPS13, $16.00)
 		  
Animals and Plants of the Ancient Maya, A Guide  •  Victoria Schlesinger   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A comprehensive guide to the natural and cultural history of 100 plants and animals of the Maya world, primarily those from the lowland tropical forest of Central America but also including savanna, mangrove and coral reef habitats. (MYA29, $29.95)
 		  
Birds of Mexico & Central America, Princeton Illustrated Checklists  •  Ber Van Perlo   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An admirably compact, comprehensive guide featuring color plates. (MEX163, $29.95)
 		  
Field Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Adjacent Areas, Belize, Guatemala, and El Salvador  •  Ernest Preston Edwards   • FIELD GUIDE • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  This classic guide illustrates all the regularly occurring birds of Mexico and neighboring areas, including details of distribution, abundance, habitat and identification features for 850 species. (MEX47, $22.95)
 		  
Fishwatcher's Field Guide Caribbean  •  Idaz Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A convenient double-sided plastic card showing 75 reef fish of the Caribbean. (DIV11, $7.50)
 		  
Marine Invertebrates of Florida, the Bahamas, Bermuda and the Caribbean  •  Idaz Greenberg   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A convenient double-sided plastic card showing 61 invertebrates of the Caribbean. (DIV12, $7.50)
 		  
Neotropical Rainforest Mammals, A Field Guide  •  L.H. Emmons   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Compact enough to slip into your daypack, this field guide to the mammals of the New World tropics features 29 color plates of more than 200 species. (GPS12, $42.50)
 		  
Snorkeling Guide to Marine Life  •  Paul Humann   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Humann's compact guide illustrates Caribbean fishes, corals, invertebrates and plants commonly encountered in shallower water. (DIV02, $14.95)
 		  
Southern Mexico, Travellers' Wildlife Guides  •  Les Beletsky   • FIELD GUIDE  •  A popular guide to the birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians and reef fishes of southern Mexico, featuring 100 excellent color plates. (FG32, $27.95)
 		  
 
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