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Jungle of Stone: The Extraordinary Journey of John L. Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, and the Discovery of the Lost Civilization of the Maya, by William Carlsen

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“The book succeeds in all ways. … A highly readable, fascinating historical narrative.” (Providence Journal)“Carlsen’s cogent and well-written dual biography successfully illuminates the fascinating tale of these intrepid pioneers of a lost civilization. ... [An] adventure tale that make[s] Indiana Jones seem tame.” (Library Journal)“[A] gripping, informative history.” (San Jose Mercury News)“Thrilling. ... A captivating history of two men who dramatically changed their contemporaries’ view of the past.” (Kirkus Reviews (starred review))“Lively. ... Ably researching [Stephens and Catherwood] and affectingly describing their friendship, Carlsen makes an exemplary contribution to the lost-cities genre.” (Booklist (starred review))“Jungle of Stone is a tale of two men that makes Indiana Jones look like a stay-at-home slacker. … Full of astonishing adventures and breathtaking discoveries. … [Carlsen] brings both research skills and a gift for narrative to this book. … Thrilling.” (Tampa Bay Times)“Carlsen is an engaging guide, at home in the jungle. ... There’s plenty to like in [his] account.” (Wall Street Journal)“Carlson’s book brings these important explorers back to the limelight they so richly deserve.” (The Explorers Journal: The Official Quarterly of The Explorers Club)“Carlsen’s masterful chronicle of [Stephens and Catherwood’s] explorations is a welcome excursion to a fascinating story set in the golden age of exploration.” (The Missourian)“With verve and vigor... Carlsen finely explicates the challenges of the Catherwood-Stephens expedition and the wonders they found.” (Publishers Weekly)

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In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood—both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece, and Rome—sailed out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the West’s understanding of human history.In the tradition of Lost City of Z and In the Kingdom of Ice, former San Francisco Chronicle journalist and Pulitzer Prize finalist William Carlsen reveals the extraordinary story of the discovery of the ancient Maya. Enduring disease, war, and the torments of nature and terrain, Stephens and Catherwood meticulously uncovered and documented the remains of an astonishing civilization that had flourished in the Americas at the same time as classic Greece and Rome—and had been its rival in art, architecture, and power. Most important, the team was the first to grasp the significance of the Mayan remains, understanding that their antiquity and sophistication overturned the West’s assumptions about the development of civilization.Based on Carlsen’s rigorous research and his own 1,500-mile journey throughout the Yucatan and Central America, Jungle of Stone is equally a thrilling adventure narrative and a revelatory work of history that corrects our understanding of the Maya themselves and “brings these important explorers [Stephens and Catherwood] back to the limelight they so richly deserve” (Explorer’s Journal).

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Taschenbuch: 544 Seiten

Verlag: William Morrow Paperbacks; Auflage: Reprint (11. April 2017)

Sprache: Englisch

ISBN-10: 0062407406

ISBN-13: 978-0062407405

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3,8 x 19,8 x 12,4 cm

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Nr. 204.108 in Fremdsprachige Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Fremdsprachige Bücher)

A brilliantly written page turner about the discovery of the major Mayan ruins in the first half of the nineteenth century. Mr.Carlsen's writing gives the reader a real sense of the challenges faced by these adventurers, one of whom, John Stephens was a great travel writer and the other, Frederick Catherwood, was a brilliant artist. Mr. Carlsen includes many of Catherwood's drawings and offsets some of them with current photographs of the same sites so the reader gets a real sense of the detail that went into these drawings. Anyone with any interest in the history of early civilizations, particularly in the Western Hemisphere should read this book.

This is a wonderful book, one that brings to life the tremendous efforts of two exceptional explorers/adventurers in the early 1800s. These men collaborated to find and document many of the major ruins left by the indigenous natives of southern Mexico and Central America.Says author William Carlsen: “Today the ancient Maya are recognized for having achieved one of the most sophisticated early civilizations on earth. Tourists by the millions, from every part of the globe, annually descend on Maya ruins in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize.”But it was not always this way, and that is what this book is about: The story of the earliest explorations into the jungles of Mexico and Central America and the words and thoughts produced by these two explorers about what they found and what they surmised.In the Acknowledgements section of the book, Carlsen states his passion for his work: “I will hold in my heart always the extraordinary Maya people….May you forever keep your rich culture alive for the benefit of us all.”I’ve personally had the pleasure of traveling in Mexico and Central America. I’ve been to many of the places talked about in the book. But I really treasure the way “Jungle of Stone” puts the pieces together, capturing the historic details and bringing the people involved in the early explorations to life.The story starts in the early 1800s, in the Age of Discovery. This was a period when Europeans and Americans knew little about the Latin American before Columbus. The Spanish conquistadores were all about enriching themselves. They were not in the New World to learn about and/or preserve indigenous native culture. In fact, the Spanish shut off the New World south of the emerging United States for centuries.But there were rumors of ruins of ancient civilizations found by the Spanish. Popular culture speculated that the works had to be by Egyptians, the Lost Tribes of Israel or others. The general thinking was that no indigenous people in the Americas would be capable of creating sophisticated works of art.The book is all about the adventures of John Lloyd Stephens and his colleague Frederick Catherwood. Each had extensive travel experience, including in the Middle East, decades before Mark Twain would publish his book, “Innocents Abroad.” Catherwood was a professional architect by trade. Stephens was a lawyer who had made good money writing a book about his travels in Egypt, the Holy Land and Petra.They began their great adventures in Latin America in 1839. They teamed up for 13 years to explore Mayan ruins in Latin America, their first conquest being Copan in Honduras. They were stunned by what they found.They went were few white men had been before. They followed some of the same paths used earlier by Hernan Cortez. They continually faced dangers from bandits or hostile Indians. They traveled through areas of active wars. Mosquitoes, ticks, snakes, scorpions, rain, heat, mud and all kinds of other nuances and obstacles were encounter along the way. This was not an adventure for sissies.Britain was the great world power at the time. The U.S. was not yet a major world power. Stephens, as an American, dreamed of bringing Mayan treasures back to New York as the foundation of new prestigious museums that would put the U.S. on the world map. At the time, few in the world knew anything about the existence of the art and architecture of the Mayans.Cameras did not exist, so it was the detailed drawings by Catherwood that would be an essential element in a future publication of a book by Stephens. The book, Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan, published in 1841, was met with great success, eventually going through 12 printings and sold all over the world. Stephens’ important conclusion was that the Mayan work was original and without influence of “models or masters.”The two were off on the trail once again in 1841, this time to focus on the Yucatan Peninsula. Catherwood would be meticulous in the detail of his drawings. Bouts of malaria slowed them down, but they were prodigious in their work, the result of which was the 1843 work entitled, Incidents of Travel in Yucatan. Like Stephens earlier works, it was a great financial success.Stephens and Catherwood talked about exploring further south, where Machu Picchu would not be discovered by the West for another 67 years. But the steam engine and the railroad was all the rage at this time. Catherwood took a job working on a line in British Guyana. Stephens would work on the railroad across Panama, essentially until he worked himself to death in 1852.Further exploration of the Mayan ruins would wain, or the most part, until the early 1900s. But the foundational information documented by Stephens and Catherwood laid a foundation for all that was to come. And what a story it is, as beautifully written by Mr. Carlson in this very fine book, which I highly recommend.

Jungle of Stone is both enthralling and enlightening. I was captivated from beginning to end by Carlsen’s masterful storytelling, which whisked me away on a breathtaking adventure while filling my mind with fascinating facts. Fans of the Peabody and Emerson Egyptology mysteries by Elizabeth Peters may find themselves as captivated as I was by the real-life extraordinary adventures of Stephens and Catherwood in Central America. They began their explorations together in 1839, discovering for themselves mysteries of the Maya civilization. The book is rich with Catherwood’s drawings and Carlsen’s photographs, enhancing the perfectly paced text. I read past my bedtime!

Carlsen’s skill as a writer turns this rigorously researched historical narrative into a highly readable page turner which manages to be as much adventure story as it is historic document. At the time that Stephens and Catherwood went to explore the rumored ruins of an ancient civilization in the jungles of Central America, it was speculated that the they were either the work Egyptians travelers or the Lost Tribes of Israel, as naturally it was assumed that no non-Western non-white peoples would have been capable of creating the sophisticated works of art, pyramids, and castles that the two found. But they proved beyond a doubt that the impressive ruins that they found were indeed the work of an ancient indigenous population which had mysteriously disappeared without a trace around 1200, long before the Spaniards first arrived in the Americas.

As a young adult (which seems like a hundred years ago) I was totally captivated by the unearthing of the Mayan ruins of Central America and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula...a lost world...an ancient civilization! Wow! Who were these people? What was their culture? What happened to them? Incredible!William Carlsen has set forth an absorbing narrative of John Stephens’ and Fredrick Catherwood’s exploration in this part of the world from 1839-1842. They discovered and rediscovered massive stone temples, statues, hieroglyphics and so much more...entire cities from centuries long gone growing beneath the impenetrable, muddled jungle vegetation.Battling jungle fevers, relentless insects, the heat, humidity and torrential rains while slashing their way through the unforgiving growth, Carlsen portrays the hardships and sacrifices of these two stunningly well.Stephens’ and Catherwood’s ventures in Central America continued on as they pioneered the railroad through Panama to connect the Atlantic to the Pacific...this section was also well represented.My only misgivings were the tonnage of verbiage on the biographical background of these two extraordinary explorers and the endless rhetoric of the political violence in the region. This could have and should have been condensed.

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