Silver cities of Yucatan (Registro nro. 118259)
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| LC control number | 27008477 |
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| Original cataloging agency | UtSlPG |
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | en |
| Source of code | iso639-1 |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER | |
| Classification number | F1201 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Mason, Gregory, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1889-1968 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Silver cities of Yucatan |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Salt Lake City, UT : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Gutenberg, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2025 |
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| Extent | 1 online resource : |
| Other physical details | multiple file formats |
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| General note | Release date is 2025-12-23 |
| 508 ## - CREATION/PRODUCTION CREDITS NOTE | |
| Creation/production credits note | Terry Jeffress and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | "Silver cities of Yucatan" by Gregory Mason is a travel and archaeological exploration narrative written in the early 20th century. Framed by a scholar’s preface and rich in firsthand detail, it follows a small expedition along the remote Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula to locate forgotten Maya cities, interweaving adventure at sea and in jungle with insights into Maya history, natural history, and coastal charting.<br/><br/>The opening of the narrative sets the scene with a vivid preface on eastern Yucatán’s reefs, lagoons, and Maya heritage, then outlines the Maya’s achievements in writing, astronomy, and architecture while dispelling popular myths of Old World origins and sketching their rise, renaissance, and decline. The story proper begins aboard the schooner H.S. Albert, introducing the crew—a field archaeologist, an ornithologist, a navigator, and the author—whose aims are to find undocumented ruins, collect scientific data on birds, and improve coastal knowledge. After a rough start through shoals and bars, they reach Payo Obispo, secure official support, and receive a promising lead to ruins near Boca de Paila and the lakes of Chunyaxché. Pressed by rumors of a rival explorer, they push north, pausing at Ambergris Key where the ornithologist bags noteworthy specimens, then brave the hazardous entrance to Chinchorro Bank. There, amid eerie lagoons teeming with herons, ibis, sharks, and crocodiles, they conduct intensive birding and exploratory forays, establishing the narrative’s blend of scientific pursuit, maritime challenge, and the lure of undiscovered Maya sites. (This is an automatically generated summary.) |
| 534 ## - ORIGINAL VERSION NOTE | |
| Introductory phrase | Originally published: |
| Publication, distribution, etc. of original | New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Antiquities |
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| Uncontrolled term | Yucatán (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel |
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| Uncontrolled term | Mason-Spinden Expedition, 1926 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Spinden, Herbert Joseph, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1879-1967 |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/s2qrjb0b52x&seq=7">https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/s2qrjb0b52x&seq=7</a> |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77539">https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77539</a> |
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