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MAYA BLUE: A Memoir of Survival is Working Girl meets Taken, a true story of love, cocaine, abduction, and survival, and in the end, Brenda Coffee is the last one standing. Recipient of the coveted Kirkus starred review and nominated for the prestigious 2025 Kirkus Prize, MAYA BLUE is a memoir that reads like a thriller, a compelling, fast-paced story that underscores the power of our voice. "It was a fairy tale until it wasn't... " For a long time, that's what successful businesswoman Brenda Coffee told herself whenever she dared to look back on her twenties and thirties.

Hakon Mielche er taget på en spændende rejse gennem Mexico for at lære den forsvundne Maya-civilisation at kende. Han fortæller blandt andet, hvordan området i sin tid blev befolket, om mayaernes madkultur, der var centreret omkring majsplanten, og om Cortes‘ erobring af mayaernes land. Han besøger de ruinbyer, der vidner om civilisationens storhed, og snakker med mayaernes efterkommere, der lever i bedste velgående i vore dages Mexico. Hakon Mielche (1904-1979) var en dansk journalist, eventyrer og forfatter.

The acclaimed, New York Times-bestselling chronicle of the discovery of the legendary lost civilization of the Maya In 1839, rumors of extraordinary yet baffling stone ruins buried within the unmapped jungles of Central America reached two of the world’s most intrepid travelers. Seized by the...