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Shook, Edwin M., Winifred Veronda

Incidents in the Life of a Maya Archaeologist

1998

140,06 €

Horizon Books

(Toronto, Canada)

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Anno di pubblicazione
1998
Luogo di stampa
Guatemala; San Marino. Southern Academy Press
Autore
Shook, Edwin M., Winifred Veronda
Edizione
First edition.
Soggetto
Travel - Central America & West Indies Signed Archeology
Lingue
Inglese
Prima edizione

Descrizione

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.