Author: HIGHWATER, JAMAKE
Title: Journey to the Sky: A Novel About the True Adventures of Two Men in Search of the Lost Mayan Kingdom
Description: New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, Publishers, 1978. Hardcover. ISBN: 0690017588. A first printing of Jamake Highwater's fictionalized account of the explorations of John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood in Central America and the Yucatan, where they found evidence of lost Mayan cities buried in the overgrowth. Includes maps of the areas explored to endpapers. --- In yellow paper-covered boards backed in brown cloth, with gilt-stamped Mayan image to front cover, gilt-stamped spine titling. With unattributed color painting to front panel of jacket. --- A newish copy: bright and tightly-bound, but with inked gift inscription and blacked-over something-or-other to front free endpaper. Unclipped jacket with 1" tear to back edge, some curling to edges but otherwise undamaged and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; (14), 242 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket .

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