Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy La... - 9781108079259

Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petraea, and the Holy LandAuthor(s): John Lloyd Stephens\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108079259, 978-1108079259\nSynopsis\nThe American writer and diplomat John Lloyd Stephens [tel] was effectively the founder of Mesoamerican archaeology, through his rediscovery of the Mayan civilization (his two-volume Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan is also reissued in this series). But before that, having qualified and practised as a lawyer in New York, he went on a two-year journey through Egypt and the Near East, publishing an account of his experiences in [tel]under the name of George Stephens): this reissue is of the expanded 1838 edition. The work was extremely popular, possibly because, as he states in the preface, Stephens writes 'without perplexing himself with any deep speculations upon the rise and fall of empires', nor does he .