Heart of the World

Heart of the World is an 1895 book by Sir Henry Rider Haggard about a lost Mayan city in Mexico. Its importance in the history of fantasy literature was recognized by its republication by the Newcastle Publishing Company as the tenth volume of the Newcastle Forgotten Fantasy Library in September, 1976. (from wikipedia.org)

Sir Henry Rider Haggard (1856 - 1925) was an English writer of adventure fiction set in exotic locations, predominantly Africa, and a pioneer of the lost world literary genre. (from wikipedia.org)