Complete and unabridged, with 58 full-page plates by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Frans Snyders and J. M. W. Turner. The dredging of the sacred cenote at Chichen Itza - the gold, the jade and the bones brought up from the well where the Maya threw offerings. Willard, a battery manufacturer and amateur archaeologist, wrote it up from Thompson's own accounts. This edition adds a gallery of 58 plates of painting, among them Turner, Church and Bierstadt, alongside 11 restored and coloured illustrations.