“I climbed down into the subterranean chamber gingerly. Several coils of what appeared, when I first looked into the chamber from above, to be snakes or heavy rope, turned out to be tree roots which had penetrated the ceiling of the chultún, then dried up and fallen to the floor. I killed a large spider which evidently fell into the shaft while I was at lunch. Then I cleaned everything with alcohol, painted the bones with a thin solution of ambroid, and drew a scale plan and two cross sections of the cave.”
Wauchope’s anthology, ranging over nearly a century and a half, of authentic adventures recounted, in their own words, by archaeological explorers in Mexico, Central America, and Peru.
Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1965. Hardcover. Octavo. 382 pages. Dust jacket in good condition with edge wear, chipping and fading to spine panel—in protector. Boards, spine and binding in near fine condition. Pages tanned with some waviness. Beautiful copy.
