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Special Notice of a new book
by

Lawrence G. Desmond, Ph.D.

Yucatan through her Eyes
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon -- Writer and Expeditionary Photographer

Yucatan through her Eyes is an account of the life of Alice Dixon Le Plongeon (1851-1910) who left London at age 19 in 1871 to explore, photograph, and write about the ancient and modern Maya of Yucatan, Mexico.

The reader will see 19th century Yucatan through her eyes as she walked and rode the dusty limestone roads, lived in a hammock for months in the jungle, and climbed the pyramids at the ancient Maya cities of Chichen Itza and Uxmal. She struggled with illness in the heat and humidity, recorded the ruins with hundreds of 3D photos, wrote about the high-life of elite hacienda owners and of the “slavery” of the poor, confronted directly (sometimes with revolver in hand) the deadly social upheaval and warfare in Yucatan, and later joined with like minded women in New York City to work for social justice.

The book will be illustrated with 69 photos by Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon that are from the photo collection of the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Included as part of the biography will be Alice's diary that gives her own first hand account of her struggles, joys and sorrows during her first three years of discovery in Yucatan.

Read more about the book and ordered it from the Spring 2009 catalog of the University of New Mexico Press.

Date of release: April 2009.

Size: 7x10 inches.

376 pages, 69 halftones, 3 maps.

Hardcover ISBN 978-0-8263-4595-0

$45

Lawrence G. Desmond received his Ph.D. in anthropology and archaeology from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and has carried out research in Mesoamerica for more than 30 years. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Archaeology with the Moses Mesoamerican Archive and Research Project at Harvard University, and a Research Associate with the Department of Anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco.

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