Time among the Maya : travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico
The Maya created one of the world's most brilliant civilizations, famous for its art, astronomy, and deep fascination with the mystery of time. Despite collapse in the ninth century, Spanish invasion in the sixteenth, and civil war in the twentieth, eight million people in Guatemala, Belize, and southern Mexico still speak Maya languages and maintain their resilient culture to this day. Traveling through Central America's jungles and mountains, Ronald Wright explores the ancient roots of the Maya, their recent troubles, and prospects for survival. Embracing history, anthropology, politics and literature, Time Among the Maya is a riveting journey through past magnificence and the study of an enduring civilization with much to teach the present
Print Book, English, 2000
1st Grove Press ed View all formats and editions
Grove Press, New York, 2000
x, 453 pages : maps ; 21 cm
9780802137289, 0802137288
44045664
East : Belize
Center : the Peten
South : Highland Guatemala
West : Chiapas
North : Yucatan Peninsula