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New PDF release: The Man Who Owned a Wonder of the World: The Gringo History

By Evan Albright

ISBN-10: 1939607027

ISBN-13: 9781939607027

In 2007 the traditional Maya urban of Chichén Itzá in Yucatán, Mexico, used to be named one of many new Seven Wonders of the realm. the distinction got here with a surprising revelation -- Mexico’s maximum archaeological treasure was once inner most property!

How may well one relatives come to possess one of many archaeological crown jewels of Mexico? the reply used to be extra marvelous: that they had got the traditional urban from an American, Edward H. Thompson, who had owned Chichén for part a century.

Thompson, an archaeologist, explored Chichén and had made one of many maximum archaeological discoveries in North the USA. All it price him used to be his attractiveness, his fortune, or even his life.

In this gripping non-fiction narrative, award-winning author Evan J. Albright travels to Yucatan to enquire Thompson's excellent real tale and stumbles upon Thompson’s greatest secret--the son he left behind.

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