The American Egypt: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The American Egypt, credited to Channing Arnold; Frederick J. Tabor Frost, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The American Egypt by Channing Arnold; Frederick J. Tabor Frost. Read in English by LibriVox volunteers. Arnold and Frost were English archaeologists who traveled to the Yucatan Peninsula and wrote "the first book ever written by Englishmen on Yucatan—that Egypt of the New World, where, it is now generally admitted, Central American Civilisation reached its apogee—and to be, for the present at least, the only Englishmen who can claim to have explored the uncivilised north-eastern portions of the Peninsula and the islands of her eastern coast." Their studies brought them to the conclusion, contrary to the bulk of the body of other contemporary experts, "that America's first architects were Buddhist immigrants from Java and Indo-China." Summary by Lynne Thompson.

Recording facts

• Recording title: The American Egypt
• Author credits: Channing Arnold; Frederick J. Tabor Frost
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 35
• Listed recording duration: 19:46:47

Catalogue topics

• Central America
• archaeology
• architecture
• java
• yucatan
• mayans
• buddist
• indo-china

Opening tracks: first 24 of 35

1. 00 - Preface — 6:48
2. 01 - A Bird's Eye View Of Mexico part 1 — 36:24
3. 02 - A Bird's Eye View Of Mexico part 2 — 38:40
4. 03 - Mexico City And The Mexicans part 1 — 35:33
5. 04 - Mexico City And The Mexicans part 2 — 30:04
6. 05 - Yucatan And Her History — 35:13
7. 06 - First Impressions Of Yucatan — 44:26
8. 07 - A Yucatan Breakfast And Other Sights — 33:10
9. 08 - Amid The Palaces Of The Itzas part 1 — 32:32
10. 09 - Amid The Palaces Of The Itzas part 2 — 41:49
11. 10 - Valladolid And After part 1 — 33:36
12. 11 - Valladolid And After part 2 — 37:30
13. 12 - In The Footsteps Of Cortes — 50:33
14. 13 - El Meco To Puerto Morelos part 1 — 25:58
15. 14 - El Meco To Puerto Morelos part 2 — 39:01
16. 15 - In Search Of The Mayan Mecca part 1 — 24:26
17. 16 - In Search Of The Mayan Mecca part 2 — 32:49
18. 17 - On The Southern Sierras part 1 — 27:28
19. 18 - On The Southern Sierras part 2 — 39:42
20. 19 - Copan And Quirigua — 32:42
21. 20 - Palenque, Menche, And On The Usumacinta — 26:12
22. 21 - The Ancient Mayans — 46:00
23. 22 - Who Were The Mayans? — 40:56
24. 23 - Who Were America's First Architects? part 1 — 39:53

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