The Ancient Maya
9 best books like The Ancient Maya (Robert J. Sharer): The Last Days of the Incas, Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia, The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future, Without Buddha I Could not be a Christian, Yucatan Before and After the Conquest, An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya, Maya Cosmos, These Truths: A History of the United States, False Gods
The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie lived in Peru for five years and became fascinated by the Incas and the history of the Spanish conquest. Drawing on both native and Spanish chronicles, he vividly describes the dramatic story of the conquest, with all its savagery and suspense. This authoritative, exciting history...
Sea People: The Puzzle of Polynesia
| Author | Christina Thompson |
| ISBN | 0062060872 |
A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thrilling intellectual detective story that looks deep into the past to uncover who first settled the islands of the remote Pacific, where they came from, how they got there, and how we know.
For more than...
The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey Into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future
| Author | Jon Gertner |
| ISBN | 0812996623 |
Greenland: a remote, mysterious island five times the size of California but with a population of just 56,000. The ice sheet that covers it is 700 miles wide and 1,500 miles long, and is composed of nearly three quadrillion tons of ice. For the last 150 years, explorers and scientists have sought to understand...
| Author | Paul F. Knitter |
| ISBN | 1851686738 |
Being a Christian isn’t easy. Sustaining belief without any doubts for one’s entire life is a very rare accomplishment. Indeed, many would say that examining one’s faith at least once is a central part of the Christian condition. In this landmark work, esteemed theologian Paul Knitter explains...
| Author | Diego de Landa |
| ISBN | 0486236226 |
These people also used certain characters or letters, with which they wrote in their books about the antiquities and their sciences. We found a great number of books in these letters and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehoods of the devil we burned them all, which they took most...
An Illustrated Dictionary of the Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico and the Maya
| Author | Mary Ellen Miller |
| ISBN | 0500279284 |
The myths and beliefs of the great Precolumbian civilizations of Mesoamerica have baffled and fascinated outsiders ever since the Spanish Conquest. Yet, until now, no single-volume introduction has existed to act as a guide to this labyrinthine symbolic world. In The Gods and Symbols of Ancient...
| Author | David A. Freidel |
| ISBN | 0688140696 |
When I first saw the movie 'The Fountain' I imagined that they had made up the Maya cosmology and that the idea of xibalba (their underworld) being an actually location in the heavens was just a nice Hollywood touch, and convenient for the sci-fi elements of the plot. turns out, it was all 100% accurate,...
These Truths: A History of the United States
| Author | Jill Lepore |
| ISBN | 0393357422 |
Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three...
| Author | Graham McNeill |
| ISBN | 1844163709 |
Still not sure if this book is better or worse than first one but it's still a bloody good fun.
Writing in this book is notch bellow first one. So far I got the impression that Abnett is better writer than McNeil, his dialogs and characters where more enjoyable. On the other hand story in this book...
