A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya [Audiobook] download free by Linda Schele
- Listen audiobook: A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
- Author: Linda Schele
- Release date: 1993/6/19
- Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780688112042
- Rating: 8.52 of 10
- Votes: 810
- Review by: Romina Pelletier
- Review rating: 9.99 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/27
- Duration: 6H56M11S in 256 kbps (108.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-29
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, WMA, MPEG4, WAV, MP3, MPEG-4 ALS (compression CAB, ARJ, RAR, TBZ2, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 544
- Includes a PDF summary of 59 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 45M16S (11.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The recent interpretation of Maya hieroglyphs has given us the first written history of the New World as it existed before the European invasion. In this book, two of the first central figures in the massive effort to decode the glyphs, Linda Schele and David Freidel, make this history available in all its detail. A Forest of Kings is the story of Maya kingship, from the beginning of its institution and the first great pyramid builders two thousand years ago to the decline of Maya civilization and its destruction by the Spanish. Here the great historic rulers of pre-Columbian civilization come to life again with the decipherment of their writing. At its height, Maya civilization flourished under great kings like Shield-Jaguar, who ruled for more than sixty years, expanding his kingdom and building some of the most impressive works of architecture in the ancient world. Long placed on a mist-shrouded pedestal as austere, peaceful stargazers, the Maya elites are now known to have been the rulers of populous, aggressive city-states. Hailed as 'a Rosetta stone of Maya civilization' (Brian M. Fagan, author of People of the Earth), A Forest of Kings is 'a must for interested readers,' says Evon Vogt, professor of anthropology at Harvard University.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Social & Cultural History, Society & Culture: General, Ancient History: To C 500 CE, Travel & Holiday Guides, History Of The Americas, Archaeology
- Download servers: FileInvite, BitShare, Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive, 4Shared, IsoHunt. Compressed in CAB, ARJ, RAR, TBZ2, ZIP
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 34.91 USD
- Dimensions: 178x254x35mm
- Weight: 771g
- Printed by: William Morrow Paperbacks
- Published in: New York, United States
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