Hörbuch: Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1
Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, Vol. 1
1 - 01 - Arrival at Balize; A Visit to the Carib Indians
- Download 01 - Arrival at Balize; A Visit to the Carib Indians audio
- Download 02 - Perils by the Way; A well-spiced Lunch audio
- Download 03 - How to roast a Fowl; How to gain a Husband audio
- Download 04 - Arrest; Imprisonment audio
- Download 05 - The State of Honduras; Village of Copan audio
- Download 06 - First View of the Ruins; Thoughts of Buying Copan audio
- Download 07 - Commencement of Explorations; Buying a City audio
- Download 08 - Tablets of Hieroglyphics; Idols Originally Painted audio
- Download 09 - Antiquity of Copan; Separation audio
- Download 10 - Esquipulas; A Death Scene audio
- Download 11 - Murder of Vice-President Flores; Political State of Guatemala audio
- Download 12 - Lazoing; Taking the Black Veil audio
- Download 13 - Farewell of the Nun; Carrera Heads the Insurgents audio
- Download 14 - Interview with Carrera; His Character audio
- Download 15 - Party to Mixco; A Night Brawl audio
- Download 16 - Volcano de Agua; Cultivation of Cochineal audio
- Download 17 - Arrival at the Pacific; A Roving American audio
- Download 18 - Arrival of Mr. Catherwood; New Year's Day audio
- Download 19 - Hunt for a Government; Attack of Fever and Ague audio
- Download 20 - Visit to the Volcano of Izalco; Sickness and Mutiny audio
- Download 21 - Zillenthal Patent Self-acting Cold Amalgamation Machine; Coffee Plantations of San Jose audio
- Download 22 - View of the Two Seas; Departure for Guatemala audio
- Download 23 - Herds of Deer; An Earthquake audio
- Download 24 - Belle of Guanacaste; Route of the Great Canal audio
- Download 25 - Survey for the Canal; Horrors of Civil War audio
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The year is 1838. The scene is the dense Honduran forest along the Copán River. Two men, John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, are about to rediscover Mayan civilization. Their guide, slashing through the rampant growth with his machete, leads them to a structure with steps up the side, shaped like a pyramid. Next they see a stone column, fourteen feet high, sculptured on the front with a portrait of a man, “solemn, stern and well fitted to excite terror,” covered on the sides with hieroglyphics, and with workmanship “equal to the finest monuments of the Egyptians.” Stephens records these discoveries and also his travels in Central America, where he had been sent by President Van Buren as special ambassador to the ill-fated Republic of Central America. The republic being engulfed in civil war when Stephens arrives in Guatemala, he finds himself dodging revolutionary armies while he hunts for a “legitimate government” to which to present his credentials. Catherwood, meanwhile, directs his immense artistic talent to illustrating views of Mayan architecture. Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan was a best seller in its day and has been called an “Indiana Jones” saga by modern reviewers.
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