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The Road To Ruins
Ian Graham
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Description for The Road To Ruins
Paperback. Num Pages: 544 pages, black & white illustrations, frontispiece. BIC Classification: BGA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 252 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1024.
For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the ""last explorer"" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. It is also full of adventure and high society, for the self-deprecating Graham traveled to remote lands such as Afghanistan in wonderful company. He tells entertaining stories about his encounters with a host of notables beginning with Rudyard Kipling, a family friend from Graham's childhood.
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For anyone who ever wanted to be an archaeologist, Ian Graham could be a hero. This lively memoir chronicles Graham's career as the ""last explorer"" and a fierce advocate for the protection and preservation of Maya sites and monuments across Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. It is also full of adventure and high society, for the self-deprecating Graham traveled to remote lands such as Afghanistan in wonderful company. He tells entertaining stories about his encounters with a host of notables beginning with Rudyard Kipling, a family friend from Graham's childhood.
Born in 1923 into an aristocratic family descended from Oliver ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of New Mexico Press United States
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
Number of Pages
544
Place of Publication
Albuquerque, NM, United States
ISBN
9780826347558
SKU
V9780826347558
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99-15
About Ian Graham
Ian Graham currently lives in England. In addition to the many volumes of his Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions, he is the author of a biography of the early Mayanist, Sir Alfred Maudslay.
Reviews for The Road To Ruins
In this beguiling autobiography, Graham, who was awarded a MacArthur genius grant in 1981 and is the founding director of the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions Program at Harvard’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, recalls a charmed life as an archaeologist-explorer. - The Atlantic; ""This beguiling biography records forty-three years of 'Maya mania.'""- The Times Literary Supplement