Questo sito usa cookie di analytics per raccogliere dati in forma aggregata e cookie di terze parti per migliorare l'esperienza utente.
Leggi l'Informativa Cookie Policy completa.

Rare and modern books

Shook, Edwin M., Winifred Veronda

Incidents in the Life of a Maya Archaeologist

1998

140.06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

Ask for more info

Payment methods

Details

Year of publication
1998
Place of printing
Guatemala; San Marino. Southern Academy Press
Author
Shook, Edwin M., Winifred Veronda
Edition
First edition.
Keyword
Travel - Central America & West Indies Signed Archeology
Languages
English
First edition
Yes

Description

8vo [24.5 x 17 cm]; xi, 302, [i] pp, plates and numerous illustrations from photos, bibliog, index, pictorial endpapers. original boards with title lettering on spine and cover, dj, quite fine (as new), clean and unused, signed by both the author and Veronda on the half title page. A picture of this book is available upon request by email. Shook spent 25 years with the Carnegie Institution exploring Yucatan, Peten, Guatemala, spending 9 years researching Tikal, and personally naming more than 1,500 Maya sites. He received the Order of the Quetzal from Guatemala. He worked with some of the great Maya archaeologists in the area including Luis J. Halle, Eric Thompson, Sylvanus Morley, Alfred Kidder. The prologue is by Marion Popenoe de Hatch and the Introduction is by Federico Fahsoen O. The work was published in only 3,000 copies.