Mayan Literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day.
Dennis Tedlock-ethnographer, linguist, poet, and award-winning author-draws on decades of living and working among the Maya to assemble this groundbreaking book, which is the first to treat ancient.
Here, for the first time, is a fully illustrated survey, from the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions to the works of later writers using the Roman alphabet.
Mayan Literature is among the oldest in the world, spanning an astonishing two millennia from deep pre-Columbian antiquity to the present day