The journey Alfred Maudslay was to make through the jungles of Central America transformed his life. Maudslay first saw the huge, strange overgrown pyramids in remote Guatemala in 1881. From then on he devoted his life to the search for the lost cities of the Maya. David Drew follows Maudslay's pioneering route, as he did by mule and canoe to the great cities of Tikal, Quirigua, and the still almost inaccessible Yaxchilan. Hacking through dense jungle, Maudslay was the first to reveal these magnificent sites.