Travel Research and Teaching in Guatemala and Mexico

This book is entitled Travel Research and Teaching in Guatemala and Mexico: In Search of the Pre-Columbian Heritage (volume I Guatemala). This book in its totality of two volumes has various facets: it is comprised of anecdotes and thoughts on travel research and teaching in Guatemala Honduras and Mexico from 1962 to 2000; it is a reflection on important topics and concepts of pre-Columbian culture and finally it is a summary of classroom guidelines and Professor Curran's notes on a major work on the civilizations of pre-Columbian Guatemala Honduras and Mexico and important documentary films on the same. Volume I treats Guatemala and Honduras. Again volume I on Guatemala treats modern urban cities and rural towns near the pre-Columbian sites: Guatemala City Antigua Lake Atitlán Chichicastenango and towns of the Verapaces in Guatemala. The well-known pre-Columbian sites in volume I are Copán in Honduras and Tikal in Guatemala. In addition an overview of the latter is seen in a textual and pictorial summary of the holdings of the Museo de Antropología e Historia in Mexico City the best of its kind. The book is richly illustrated with black-and-white travel photos by Curran.