Alfred Maudslay and the Maya: A biography by Ian Graham, British Museum Press, £29.99, ISBN 071412561X Reviewed by Nicholas Saunders
SWEATING it out in 19th-century Central America, Alfred Maudslay captured Maya culture using little more than film, plaster and papier mâché. His extraordinary scientific record of archaeological monuments not only broke new ground, but has endured. In the erudite and readable Alfred Maudslay and the Maya, Ian Graham, a scholar of the Maya, charts the life of a man equally at home in the jungle and with the life of the mind.
Born in 1850, the seventh of…
