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  • The Smell of Rain on Dust

    Grief and Praise

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    "Beautifully written and wise … [Martin Prechtel] offers stories that are precious and life-sustaining. Read carefully, and listen deeply."—Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winnerInspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martín Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Mare and the Mouse

    Stories of My Horses Vol. I

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Series series Stories of My Horses
    Beautiful and hilarious, tearful and rambunctious, very real, ironic and magic-filled, Martín Prechtel's new book The Mare and the Mouse is a series of lyrical sagas in tribute to each of the native New Mexican horses that carried him through his youth on the Reservation and then again during the difficult times following his return home after over a decade in the Mayan Highlands of Guatemala. ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic

    The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Martín Prechtel’s experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight from Guatemala’s brutal civil war to life in the U.S. inform this lyrical blend of memoir, cultural commentary, and spiritual call to arms. The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic is both an epic story and a cry to the heart of humanity based on the author’s ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun

    A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time, and Finding One's True Form

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Author and illustrator Martín Prechtel is internationally known for his explorations of ancient folklore and uncovering the lessons therein for modern readers. In The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun, he revives a hitherto unknown Guatemalan Tzutujil Mayan tale of the beginnings of the world with a poetic retelling of the story, 28 evocative drawings, and a critical analysis that both ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Canyon Wren

    Stories of My Horses Vol. III

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Series series Stories of My Horses
    The Canyon Wren is the continuation and beautiful punchline of the full tale of Martí n Prechtel' s trilogy, The Story of My Horses, and picks up right where The Wild Rose leaves off. The Wild Rose ends with the dramatic Barn Fire Incident in which the author and his steady new young Barb stallion, Punk, pull a flame stunned mare out of a burning barn just seconds before the whole burning ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town

    Revised Edition

    by Robert S. Carlsen, Martín Prechtel ...
    This compelling ethnography explores the issue of cultural continuity and change as it has unfolded in the representative Guatemala Mayan town Santiago Atitlán. Drawing on multiple sources, Robert S. Carlsen argues that local Mayan culture survived the Spanish Conquest remarkably intact and continued to play a defining role for much of the following five centuries. He also shows how the twentieth ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Wild Rose

    Stories of My Horses

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Series Book 2 - Stories of My Horses
    In The Mare and the Mouse, the first book in the Stories of My Horses trilogy, Martín Prechtel sets loose his mystical memoir of a few mixed-breed horses who transform into allies of mythic proportions by his one-of-a-kind style of maneuvering through the rugged beauty of New Mexico. Together, they out-canter disillusionment and bitter despair, coursing into a dawn of beauty and humor. This second ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rescuing the Light

    Quotes from the Oral Teachings of Martín Prechtel

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    A collection of quotes and sayings from the oral teachings of a leading thinker, writer and teacher of Indigenous spirituality.Martín Prechtel is widely recognized as a profound and beloved teacher for our times. Raised in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, he has dedicated his life to the preservation and promulgation of indigenous spirituality. Rescuing the Light is a collection of Prechtel's ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stealing Benefacio's Roses

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Following the acclaimed Secrets of The Talking Jaguar and Long Life, Honey in the Heart, this is an expansive, lyrical novel in the tradition of indigenous oral storytelling. Based on the author's many years of living in a Guatemalan village, Stealing Benefacio's Roses interweaves dramatic recountings of village life and the political horrors of civil war with lyric retellings of sacred Mayan ... Read more

    Was $13.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Mayan Myth and Legend

    by Martin Prechtel ...
    Narrated by Michael Toms ...

    Unabridged

    57 min

    Prechtel mixes Mayan myths with a first-person account of his efforts to escape from Guatemala with his family intact during the 1980s civil war that tore the country apart. In this dialogue you will get a privileged and rare glimpse into the complex and spiritually rich life of the Mayan culture, with tales filled with enchantment, danger, passion, and hope. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Wild Rose

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Narrated by Martín Prechtel ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 37 min

    "Carrying on from The Mare and the Mouse, this series, The Stories of My Horses, is not just a compendium of imaginative romantic narratives written to casually entertain the horse loving public.As romantically remembered as they might seem to be, they are actually straightforward historical accounts of what happens when a life-loving fool like me, a native of that beautiful land-locked, cultural ... Read more

    $21.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Smell of Rain on Dust

    Grief and Praise

    by Martín Prechtel ...
    Narrated by Martín Prechtel ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 33 min

    "Beautifully written and wise … [Martin Prechtel] offers stories that are precious and life-sustaining. Read carefully, and listen deeply."—Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winnerInspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martín Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook