Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path

Freidel, David, Linda Schele, Joy Parker

ISBN 10: 0688100813 / ISBN 13: 9780688100810

Edité par William Morrow, New York, 1993

A propos de cet article

Small 4to, 543 pp., color plates, b/w illus. Head and heel of spine and corners and lower edges of boards bumped with some loss at corners. Jacket handled, lightly creased, edgeworn, with small scuff to front fold.

N° de réf. du vendeur 17908

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Maya Cosmos: Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path
• Éditeur: William Morrow, New York
• Date de parution: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0688100813
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780688100810
• Reliure: Boards
• Édition: First edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• État de la jaquette: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

Freidel, David. Schele, Linda. Parker, Joy. Maya Cosmos - Three Thousand Years on the Shaman's Path. Photographs by Justin Kerr & MacDuff Everton. First Edition. New York, William Morrow and Company, 1993. 18.5 cm x 26 cm. 543 pages. With 45 colour illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following chapters: Foreword - The Orthography, Worlds Apart Joined Together - The Road of Maya Reality, Dancing Across the Abyss - Maya Festival and Pageant, Flint-Shields and Battle Beasts - The Warrior Path of Kingship, and Gaming with the Gods - Destiny and History in Maya Thought. Appendices include full notes and references. Illustrated throughout, both in colour and in black and white.

Présentation de l'éditeur

A Masterful blend of archaeology, anthropology, astronomy, and lively personal reportage, Maya Comos tells a constellation of stories, from the historical to the mythological, and envokes the awesome power of one of the richest civilizations ever to grace the earth.