Product Description: The Maya are of enormous and abiding fascination to anybody interested in archaeology, ancient history, astronomy, or the visual arts. From the 3rd century BC to the 14th century AD, while Europe was deep in the Dark and Middle Ages, the Maya were producing astonishing sculpture, stelae, and wall murals, and building magnificent temples, palaces, tombs, and ball courts...read more

Product Description: The temples of Cambodia are among the most complex and imposing architectural creations in the world. This book invites the reader to experience those extraordinary sites through remarkable photographs and a text by a leading Khmer cultural historian...read more

Visually stunning photography of the ancient Incan city in Peru is accompanied by Pablo Neruda's epic poem 'Heights of Machu PIcchu' in both the original Spanish and an English translation by Stephen Kessler.

Bursting with color, 150 photographs complement an eloquent tour of the sea, land, people, culture, history, and ancient monuments of Greece, from the Peloponnesus penninsula to the fishing villages of the Aegean to the immortal Parthenon. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

An evocative portfolio of photographs supports Fowles exploration of the double reality of Stonehenge--that, even as it resists a scientific final solution to questions about its origin and purpose, it symbolizes the imprecision of man's feeling and thought