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Time Among the Maya - Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico (Paperback)
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Time Among the Maya - Travels in Belize, Guatemala and Mexico (Paperback)
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Loot Price R359
Discovery Miles 3 590
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The Maya of Central America created one of the most dazzling
civilizations on this earth, which is often compared to Ancient
Greece. The Maya had a delight in creation, expressed in art,
architecture, pottery, astronomy, mathematics and mythology, all
combined with a deep, metaphysical fascination with time. This
civilization seems to have collapsed in the ninth century, some
five hundred years before the Spanish conquest of America. Ronald
Wright travelled through the old territories of the Maya (the
jungles and mountains of Guatemala, Belize and Mexico) to explore
the ancient roots of their culture and to map out what has
survived. Despite civil wars and centuries of oppression by first
an Hispanic, then Mestizo culture, he discovers a region where
seven million people still speak Mayan languages and struggle to
maintain their resilient, indigenous culture. It is at once a
riveting journey, written with wit and wisdom, but also a study of
a civilization. It is travel writing at its broadest and its best.
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