Download or read book Incidents of Travel in Yucatan Volumes 1 and 2 (Annotated, Illustrated) written by John L Stephens and published by Sastrugi Press Classics. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1839, John Lloyd Stephens was appointed by the president to be Special Ambassador to Central America. While his political mission was doomed from the start due to an expansive civil war, his rediscovery of ancient civilizations would captivate the world towards the previously overlooked Mayan culture.