An English mine manager near the Usumacinto River, on the border of Chiapas and Guatemala, is handed the memoir of Don Ignatio, an old man of Indian blood. It tells how, after a failed rising against Mexican rule, Ignatio and the Englishman Strickland set out to find the legendary golden city called the Heart of the World, hidden in the jungle and guarded by the last of an ancient people.
Lost-city adventure from the author of King Solomon’s Mines, with the period attitudes of 1895. Download the free EPUB.