A Maya Universe in Stone

In 1951, Quest for the Lost City was published in the United States. Reviewed in The New York Times as ‘a sort of overland Kon-Tiki’ – in reference to Thor Heyerdahl’s recent Pacific Ocean adventure – the book was an instant success and remains in print today. In 1955, it was released as a documentary film by Sol Lesser, producer of Tarzan films. The film’s poster displayed the book’s authors, husband and wife Dana and Ginger Lamb, stripped down for adventure clutching weapons, gazing through the Mexican jungle at an ancient-looking city, saying: ‘We walked 1,000 miles through the hostile jungle… to make this incredible discovery!’ Although the Lambs have been widely d