John Fowles

Barry Brukoff

The history and meaning of Stonehenge with photographs of the ancient monument as it is today.

The Enigma of Stonehenge

Pablo Neruda

Stephen Kessler

Visually stunning photography of the ancient Incan city in Peru is accompanied by Pablo Neruda's epic poem "Heights of Machu PIcchu" in both the original Spanish and an English translation by Stephen Kessler.

Machu Picchu

Michael D. Coe

While Europe was buried in the Dark Ages, the Maya were producing astonishing sculpture, stelae and wall murals, as well as building magnificent temples, tombs and ball courts. This extraordinary volume pairs the leading Maya scholar and one of the worlds finest photographers of ancient sites to trace the rise and fall of Mayan civilization through its great royal cities. From El Mirador to the cities of the Maya Renaissance and finally to Chichen Itza, where the 700-year flowering of the Mayan people came to a halt, the riveting history of powerful dynasties, political intrigues and a flourishing culture is illuminated through new research and evocative photographs. A new reading of artifacts, reliefs, murals, maps and other archaeological evidence allows Coe to untangle the complex sequence of internecine ritual warfare that fatally weakened the late Maya era. Documented with specially commissioned maps and plans based on the latest research, Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya will be irresistible to everyone from the casual visitor to Pre-Columbian experts.

Royal Cities of the Ancient Maya

An evocative portfolio of photographs supports Fowles exploration of the double reality of Stonehenge--that, even as it resists a scientific final solution to questions about its origin and purpose, it symbolizes the imprecision of man's feeling and thoug

Barry Brukoff

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