Canek: History and Legend of a Maya Hero // Ermilo Abreu Gómez // 1983 // Vintage Paperback
Avon Bard: 1st Printing, 1983.
"Canek is actually a story, a contemporary narrative of the life and ideas of Jacinto Canek -- the real and legendary hero of the 1761 Maya Indian revolt in the Yucatan. It is fiction, woven with history, folklore, and a lucid evocation of the ambience of daily existence on the grand plantations of colonial Mexico." Translated with an introduction by Mario L. Davila and Carter Wilson.
Good condition overall with some wear, tear, blemish to the covers and spine. Pencil marking on the first page. Yellowing to the pages.
