The Maya: Palaces and Pyramids of the Rainforest

by Henri Stierlin

Book Overview

This volume retraces the development and magnificent flowering of Mayan architecture in Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and Belize over the period 300 B.C.-A.D. 1500. Tikal, the earliest Mayan religious... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3822812412
• ISBN13: 9783822812419
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: Taschen
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 2.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.5" x 11.9"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful Maya

This is basically a coffee table book. Nice pictures, easy text, not too deep. A good reference if you want to choose which Maya big spots you want to visit in your next vacation. It does suffer from not reflecting more recent advances on the interpretation on Maya history, such as the Toltec influence. But it is not apparently the objective of the book. This reviewer thinks that what the author wants is for you to get interested in the Maya civilization, to respond to the beauty and greatness of its art, to give to research and protection funds... All very commendable goals but perhaps a little too weak for the more historically minded. Yet, even this last one can have a fine time reviewing this book which is always a nice reminder of the places we saw, or want to visit someday.