Jungle of Stone by William Carlsen

Jungle of Stone by William Carlsen is a 528-page hardcover published in 2016 by William Morrow, and is a stated first edition.  The dust jacket has light wear to the corners.  The book is in very good condition.  Book Summary In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reach two of the world's most intrepid travelers. Seized by the reports, American diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood--both already celebrated for their adventures in Egypt, the Holy Land, Greece and Rome--sailed together out of New York Harbor on an expedition into the forbidding rainforests of present-day Honduras, Guatemala, and Mexico. What they found would rewrite the west's understanding of human history. In the tradition of Lost City of Z and in the Kingdom of Ice, former San Francisco Chronicle journalism Pulitzer Prize finalist William Carlsen reveals reveals the extraordinary story of the discovery of the ancie