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The Road to Ruins

By Graham, Ian

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ISBN: 0826347541 Publisher: Univ of New Mexico Pr Published: Feb 28 2011 Pages: 538 Weight: 4.00lbs. Height: 10.50" Width: 7.50" Depth: 1.50" Language: English

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Ian Graham was thirty-five before he found what he wanted to be when he grew up. Born in 1923 to an aristocratic family, Graham grew up with a bevy of relatives caught between Victorian standards and post-war freedoms. After a stint in the navy, he became a photographer. On a trip to America, he wandered into Mexico. There he became intrigued with the ruins of the Mayan culture. He began exploring and photographing the engravings and wall paintings. This led to a career of over fifty years in which he made drawings and photos of thousands of Mayan inscriptions and became part of many archaeological digs. His memoir is told in a delightful, often bemused, fashion. While much of his story concentrates on his days in Central America and the work to preserve Mayan relics, it is also an intensely personal diary of a man who occasionally seems to have walked out of a Wodehouse novel. It is very enjoyable, even if one is not knowledgeable about the Maya. A lighter-weight edition would make it perfect vacation reading. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)