The story of two friends who set off on one of the most remarkable expeditions of the early nineteenth century changed the way everybody in Europe and the United States thought about Central America for good. John Lloyd Stephens was a thirty-three-year-old American writer and lawyer and Frederick Catherwood was a thirty-seven-year-old British artist and architect. At a time when almost all of Central America was involved in violent rebellions and insurrections, the adventurers boarded a boat in New York bound for Belize, which was then known as British Honduras. They were on a mission to
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