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The extraordinary true story of the rediscovery of the Mayan civilization: In the tradition of 'The Lost City of Z' and 'Empire of Ice', comes the forgotten tale of nineteenth century American John Lloyd Stephens's quest to uncover and understand the ancient world's most advanced civilization amid the jungles of Central America.
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Documents the true story of the nineteenth-century rediscovery of the Mayan civilization by American ambassador John Lloyd Stephens and British architect Frederick Catherwood, illuminating how their findings profoundly changed Western understandings about human history.
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