On his return to New York, he published Incidents of Trayel in Egypt, Arabia, Petræs, and the Holy Land," followed very shortly by "Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland." Stephens's health rendering it necessary for him to travel abroad, he visited many of the countries of Europe, extending his tour to Egypt and Syria.
Stephens pursued his studies at Columbia College, New York, afterwards entered a law school, and when of age was admitted to the practice of the legal profession. Nelson, who, although blind, is described as an admirable reader of the classics.
Benjamin Stephens, was born at Shrewsbury in the State of New Jersey, in the United States of America, in the year 1805. John Lloyd Stephens, the second son of Mr. Should this volume be favourably received, it will be followed by a continuation of our travels in Yucatan in the years 1841, 1842.Ī short biographical notice of my late fellow-traveller may not be uninteresting to the readers of the present volume. Stephens as Special Confidential Agent from the United States to Central America, having taken place but a very short time previous to our leaving, and after all our arrangements were completed. Stephens, with a view of condensing the whole into a single volume but those parts only are omitted which appeared to me of less interest, as not being connected with the original, and, I may say, only object of our journey, an Exploration of the Ruined Cities of Central America, the appointment of Mr. I have found it necessary to curtail a portion of the narrative written by Mr. The reader will thus have the entire discoveries and antiquarian researches as at first presented, and the material wherewith to form a correct judgment of their character and importance.
The Illustrations are all re-engraved from the Original Drawings and Sketches, and the greatest attention has been paid to make them accurate. In preparing the present Work for publication in a cheap form, and which, although it has been favourably received by the British Public, has never before been printed in England, I have not omitted any of the Illustrations which appear in the American Edition, and have given some additional ones, which are now published for the first time.
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