B O O K S

            Travel Guides

   Rough Guide to  Guatemala
        Rough Guide Publisher, 3rd Edition February 2006, , ISBN 1843534991
The Rough Guide go into detail as no other guide, not forgetting all the important travel information you need.

    Lonely Planet Guatemala
         John Noble and Susan Forsyth, Lonely Planet Publications, January 2004, ISBN 174059293X
As all other guides from the same publisher this guide tells you all travel details you need, but lacks of cultural background information and sticks to the main travel route.  

            The Maya

    Popol Vuh : The Definitive Edition Of The Mayan Book Of The Dawn Of Life, Dennis Tedlock
         Touchstone, January 1996, , ISBN 0684818450
Tedlock's translation is sensitive, precise, and illuminating. It will greatly help the Popol Vuh achieve its rightful place as a masterpiece of religious writing, familiar to all those who seek a message that transcends ordinary concerns.

    Chronicle of the Maya Kings and Queens, Simon Martin and Nikolai Grube
         Thames and Hudson, ISBN 0-500-05103-8
The detailed history of eleven of the most important Mayan sites, you don't have to be an expert to like. Can even by taken along on a trip to these spots.


            Nature

    Animals and Plants of the ancient Maya, Victoria Schlesinger
         University of Texas Press, 2001, ISBN 0-292-7760-4
Part field guide, part book of vignettes discussing the animals and plants most commonly seen in the Maya area, this fine guide provides a fresh synthesis of anthropological and biological research that will serve as an engaging and practical resource for visitors.

    Mexican Birds, Roger Peterson
         The Peterson Field Guide Series, 1973,  ISBN 0-395-97514-X


            Others

    Secrets of the talking Jaguar, Martin Prechtel
         Publisher Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1999, , ISBN 0874779707
This powerful memoir of an American who was adopted by a shaman and allowed to study the secrets of a Tzutujil Mayan village in deepest Guatemala "offers readers a privileged and rare glimpse into [the village's] complex and spiritually rich life.

    Arts and Society in a Highland Maya Community, Allen J. Christenson
         University of Texas Press, 2001, , ISBN 0-292-71242-1
Allen Christenson offers us in this wonderful book a testimony to contemporary Maya artistic creativity in the shadow of civil war, natural disaster, and rampant modernization.


            Map

    The rough Guide map to Guatemala and Belize
         Rough Guide Publisher, February 2004, ISBN 1843532336