About this title: The mystique of the pre-Columbian Maya has prompted much speculation about the nature of this sophisticated people. With the breaking of their elaborate hieroglyphic code, Schele and Freidel, Mayan scholars of note, provide a new look at the Maya. Structured on sound scholarly principles, their presentation abounds in notes, references, indexes, ...
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Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: New York: Willam Morrow & Co Inc
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780688112042ISBN:0688112048
Description: Very Good. 4to, 542pp, Very Good + pictorial soft covers with titles to cover and spine. With illustrations and diagrams throughout book. The authors researched the Maya remote past and recall the deeds of Maya kings in Ancient Central America. Binding firm, covers bright, text clean. Mild wear only. 992gms. read more
Edition: Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Co, New York
Date Published: 1990
Description: Kerr, Justin (Photographer) Very Good in Good + jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Jacket has edge ware and a two short tears, else very good. read more
Edition: 1st
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date Published: 10/1/1990
ISBN-13:9780688074562ISBN:0688074561
Description: Good. 0688074561 Ex-library book with usual markings. Clean text. SATISF GNTD + SHIPS W/IN 24 HRS. Ships in a padded envelope with free tracking. 30, 842. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780688112042ISBN:0688112048
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. clean pages, mior bent on the corner of the back cover, fast shipping delivery with confirmation number. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 544 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Fair. 0688112048 Acceptable condition, may have heavier wear and/or soiling, highlighting or other markings inside, complete and perfectly usable condition. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Co, New York, 1990.
ISBN-13:9780688074562ISBN:0688074561
Description: Kerr, Justin (Photographer) Quarto, softcover, light edgewear to green pictorial wraps else interior VG. Color photo section in center of book. 542 pp. Prologue, foreword, maps, chronology, Filled with drawings and diagrams. Very thorough and well researched book. read more
Edition: First Edition First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Date Published: 1990
ISBN-13:9780688074562ISBN:0688074561
Description: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 0688074561. Color Photographs 1.6 x 9.9 x 7.1 Inches The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. Now, two central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available for the first time in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the ... read more
Edition: Cp 1990 NAP
Binding: Softbound No Spine Crease Tigh
Publisher: William Morrow and Company, Inc., NY
Description: Color Photographs Justin Kerr. VG Softbound Clean Tight. No Dj. 10 By 6.75 By 7" Softbound 542 Pgs Includes Ind. US orders only.. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: William Morrow and Company, New York
Date Published: 1990
Description: Kerr, Justin. Very Good. Book. 4to-over 9-12" tall. Spine uncreased. Binding tight and square. Pages clean and free of writing or marks. read more
Binding: paper back
Publisher: William & Morrow & company, New York
Date Published: 1990
Description: Very Good. Very good condition 542 pg. paperback, clean cover and pages with no markings or tears, tight binding, many maps and illustrations, a very nice book. read more
"anybody who needs calming down about 2012 should read this book. it gives the accurate translation of the mayan inscription that others have ignored in order to hype an end of the world event in 2012. ignore the hype. by stock instead. you'll be wealthy in 2013."
"Read this in advance of our trip down to Chiapas to visit my sister and brother in-law at their archaeological site this coming spring. This was recommended by them as a good general overview...not to mention more readable than others. Not all her assertions have stood the test of time...but that's not the point. I saw Linda Shele once at a conference hosted by the BYU Anthropology Dept when I worked there. She was quite a character...refreshing in the field of archaeology. She's passed away since."
"I read this while traveling the Yucatan peninsula visiting Mayan ruins, from well-known & touristy sites to partially excavated, remote and unknown ones. This book really brought the history and culture of the sites we visited to life and provided the context needed to really get an understanding of this amazing civilization."
"I still read this book. To think Linda is gone, now that is a deafening loss. I learned everything I know about Mesoamerican culture from her. The isolated nature of the Maya (global influence) gives one a glimpse into the very nature of humanity. As always, the universal themes are all there, one after the other. If has in an indirect way afected so much of my anthropological perspective, that I don't even know were I would be if I never came across this book."
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