This attractive booklet by Jack Rau takes the reader on a fast trip to Yucatan and the tropical rainforests of Guatemala, Mexico, and Honduras. Before the Spanish conquest, this area was the homeland of the gifted Mayas—inventors of glyphic writing and a precise solar calendar. The reader is introduced to the famous archaeological sites of Tikal, Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, Kabah, Sayil, Labna, Palenque, and Copán. He also gets a glimpse into the working of the Maya calendar which the author has cleverly correlated with the Christian calendric year of 1960-61.
The book is the result of the author’s personal hobbies: art, travel and painting. It reads like a good travelogue and, in addition to being illustrated by the author’s line drawings, it has been handsomely printed by Mr. Rau’s own private press.
