The American Egypt
by Channing Arnold
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About this eBook
- Author
- Frost, Frederick J. Tabor
- Title
- The American Egypt: A Record of Travel in Yucatan
- Credits
- Produced by Julia Miller, Matthias Grammel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F1201: North America local history: Mexico
- Subject
- Mayas
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42061
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42061
- Release Date
- February 10, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE AMERICAN EGYPT
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.CHAPTER I A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF MEXICO
- 6.CHAPTER II MEXICO CITY AND THE MEXICANS
- 7.CHAPTER III YUCATAN AND HER HISTORY — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.CHAPTER IV FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF YUCATAN
- 9.CHAPTER V A YUCATECAN BREAKFAST, AND OTHER "SIGHTS"
- 10.CHAPTER VI AMID THE PALACES OF THE ITZAS — FOOTNOTES:
- 11.CHAPTER VII VALLADOLID AND AFTER
- 12.CHAPTER VIII IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CORTES — FOOTNOTES:
- 13.CHAPTER IX EL MECO TO PUERTO MORELOS — FOOTNOTES:
- 14.CHAPTER X IN SEARCH OF THE MAYAN MECCA
- 15.CHAPTER XI ON THE SOUTHERN SIERRAS
- 16.CHAPTER XII COPAN AND QUIRIGUA — FOOTNOTES:
- 17.CHAPTER XIII PALENQUE, MENCHÉ, AND ON THE USUMACINTA
- 18.CHAPTER XIV THE ANCIENT MAYANS
- 19.CHAPTER XV WHO WERE THE MAYANS? — FOOTNOTES:
- 20.CHAPTER XVI WHO WERE AMERICA'S FIRST ARCHITECTS? — FOOTNOTES:
- 21.CHAPTER XVII THE AGE OF THE RUINS — FOOTNOTES:
- 22.CHAPTER XVIII HIEROGLYPHICS AND PAINTINGS — FOOTNOTES:
- 23.CHAPTER XIX SLAVERY ON THE HACIENDAS — FOOTNOTES:
- 24.CHAPTER XX YUCATAN AS IT IS TO-DAY AND THE YUCATECANS
- 25.CHAPTER XXI THE GREEN GOLD OF YUCATAN
- 26.CHAPTER XXII FLORA AND FAUNA
- 27.INDEX
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