[xii], 335, [1] pp. Red cloth, gilt titles, map on endpapers, color title page and plates by Leon Underwood, line drawings throughout text. A firsthand account of travels through the Yucatan in imitation of the route of American explorer John Lloyd Stephens, including the shorelines of the Gulf of Mexico, the Tobasco river, the Chiapas, and the Sierra Madre mountains. Stephens's explorations led to the rediscovery of Mayan civilization, and helped in the planning of the route for the Panama railroad.