Journey to the Sky (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jamake Highwater
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Plot: Fictionalized biography/travelogue
- Time of Work: From 1839 to 1840
- Setting: Central America and southern Mexico
- Principal Characters: John Lloyd Stephens, Frederick Catherwood, Colonel Archibald MacDonald, Patrick Walker, Lieutenant John Caddy, Augustin, The Muleteer, Don Gregorio, Don José Maria Asebedo, Francisco Morazan, Rafael Carrera, Henry Pawling
- Genres: Long fiction, Biographical fiction
- Subjects: Traveling or travelers, Nineteenth century, Villages, Native Americans or American Indians, Mexico or Mexicans, Malaria, Central America or Central Americans, Archaeology or archaeologists, Mayas
- Locales: Mexico, Central America
The Novel
The subtitle of Journey to the Sky accurately describes the book: “A Novel About the True Adventures of Two Men in Search of the Lost Maya Kingdom.” The two men are John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood, pioneering nineteenth century explorers of the Maya ruins whose writings and drawings, respectively, provided the basis for Highwater’s fictionalized account. Stephens, a disaffected lawyer from a rich New York family, met Catherwood in London, became his friend, and persuaded the British architect to move his business and family to New York....
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