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If you've always longed to strike out through the open country of northern Mexico armed with frying pan and bedroll, then this guide to the people, culture, folkways, landscape, and language of rural Mexico is for you. Out of twenty years of travel in backcountry Mexico, authors Bob Burleson and David Riskind have produced perhaps the most practical and accurate guide available for the unconventional tourist--the man or woman who prefers to get off the beaten path by foot, burro, mule, canoe, raft, or vehicle.

Going well beyond the usual tourist guidebook entries, Backcountry...

Palenque, Teotihuacan, Yaxchilan--the names of these ancient Maya cities conjure images of mystery and grandeur. Joyce Kelly s new visitor s guide includes these fascinating places and many more. This guide provides travelers with captivating photographs, vivid descriptions, and complete, up-to-date tourist information on 70 archaeological sites and 60 museums. Sites range from the most remote to the largest and most well known.

Joyce Kelly explores the art, architecture, and history of each museum and site, from pyramids and temples to the hieroglyphs and images of ornately carved...

Two of the world s leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagun s monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of Sahagun s Nahuatl text, and represents one of the most distinguished contributions in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and linguistics.
Written between 1540 and 1585, the "Florentine Codex" (so named because the manuscript has been part of the Laurentian Library s collections since at least 1791) is the most...

Now in its third edition, Mexico's Volcanoes covers the third, fifth, and seventh highest mountains in North America -- El Pico de Orizaba, Popocatepetl, and Iztacchuatl -- and two lesser-known peaks, La Malinche and Nevado de Toluca. This guidebook provides directions to all of the approach roads and climbing routes, and...