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Reproduction of the original: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

LIFE BY POETRY Life is a jumble of impressions and these are related in poetic form A lifetime of childhood, wonder, travel, war, sorrow and love, based primarily in the Pacific Northwest that has been filled with beauty has been the basis of my life and the basis for this book.

What does it take to explore the ancient Yucatan?How many diseases can one survive?The definitive edition.• Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of John Lloyd Stephens¿• Featuring original plates, woodcuts, and illustrationsDiscover the hardships of travel of the 19th century.The two years John Lloyd Stephens spent in central America were filled with adventures through jungle and wilderness. Searching for the ruins of anc...

Just below the cornfields of Kentucky, in the small, quirky town of Parrottville, Tennessee, a deranged murderer is on a killing spree. Local women are being savagely slain, their bodies exposing postmortem mutilation which indicates the killer's perverse interest in Charles Manson mixed with his deadly passion for Shakespearian poetry. Parrottville's "good ole boy" police department only has one detective who has ever worked a serial homicide...

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All of the chocolate in Brominia has gone missing. The delectable brown stuff has vanished in huge quantities from every source and from every means of storage and no one knows why. Because of the widespread ignorance of the cause, panic has engulfed the ranks of the chocoholics and they have demanded a resolution to the grim and serious problem. To throw light upon this frenzied and disordered state of affairs the Bureau of Community Disturba...

What does it take to explore the ancient Yucatán?How many diseases can one survive?The definitive edition.• Features an extended biography of the life and experiences of John Lloyd Stephens• Featuring original plates, woodcuts, and illustrationsDiscover the hardships of travel of the 19th century.The two years John Lloyd Stephens spent in central America were filled with adventures through jungle and wilderness. Searching for the ruins of anci...

Postracial America? argues that the notion of "postracial" does not begin with the election of Barack Obama, nor will it end with his administration. The "postracial" is an expression of the protean nature of white supremacy in America, and the articles collected here demonstrate the variations of this seemingly innocuous and salutary expression.

The all-embracing, whaddya got? nature of rebellion in Fifties America included pop music's unlikely challenge to entrenched notions of masculinity. Within that upheaval, four prominent artists dared to behave in ways that let the public assumebut not seetheir queerness. That these artists cultivated ambiguous sexual personas often reflected an understandable fear, but also a struggle to fulfill personal and professional expectations.Vincent L...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This w...

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Excerpt from Reiseerlebnisse in Centralamerika, Chiapas und YucatanBei so ganz besondern Vorzügen des fraglichen Werks, wie überhaupt in Betracht der in unsern Tagen so sehr gesteigerten und so weit verbreiteten Liebe zur Länder und Völkerkunde in deren engen Verbundung mit Geschichts und Alterthums forschung, glauben wir dem gebildeten/deutschen Publikum einen wahrhafteu Dienst zu erweisen und zugleich, soviel an uns ist.About the PublisherFo...

Excerpt from Reiseerlebnisse in Centralamerika, Chiapas und YucatanBei so ganz besondern Vorzügen des fraglichen Werks, wie überhaupt in Betracht der in unsern Tagen so sehr gesteigerten und so weit verbreiteten Liebe zur Länder und Völkerkunde in deren engen Verbundung mit Geschichts und Alterthums forschung, glauben wir dem gebildeten/deutschen Publikum einen wahrhafteu Dienst zu erweisen und zugleich, soviel an uns ist.About the PublisherFo...

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