Tombs, Travel And Trouble

Archeologist Lawrence Griswold never went looking for trouble, but in his quest for knowledge about the ancient Mayans, trouble found him. While digging for answers about this mysterious culture, he mixed with cannibals and headhunters, killer cats and Komodo dragons.

This book, writes the author, "is not an autobiography. These are stories of travel and trouble. The adventures of a peripatetic archeologist and his associates during a period of sixteen years and a distance of over four hundred thousand miles include a lot of both."

This is a fascinating look at an adventurer who nonetheless didn't set out specifically to look for adventure. "Adventures, in retrospect, are pieces of extremely bad luck that missed a fatal ending. One or the other, tragedy or comedy -- it's never adventure while it's going on."

Follow turn of the century archeologist as he deals with natives, headhunters, poisonous snakes, dead employees, and a ship with a dead engine and no water aboard stuck in the middle of the ocean. All in a days work while trying to discover the link between Mayans and Polynesians.