Time Among the Maya: Travels in Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico

Ronald Wright. Henry Holt & Company, $15.95 (451pp) ISBN 978-0-8050-1470-9

This impressionistic travel diary portrays the uneducated but spirited modern descendants of the ancient Mayas, Incas and Aztecs, a potentially volatile peasant group suppressed by the European-descended Ladino majority in Latin America. ``Wright fuses adventure, politics, archeology and history in a riveting read,'' said PW. (Apr.)

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