The Cambridge edition aims to provide texts which are as close as can now be determined to those he would have wished to see printed. Far from doing violence to the texts Lawrence would have wished to see published, editorial intervention is essential to recover them.

General editors' preface

Acknowledgements

Chronology

Cue-titles

Introduction

The Plumed Serpent (Quetzalcoatl)

Explanatory notes

Glossary of selected Spanish terms

Textual apparatus

Appendixes

Ⅰ A sketch of Aztec mythology

Ⅱ Chronological table of cultural periods in the Valley of Mexico

Ⅲ Mexican historical events relevant to Ttle Plumed Serpent

Ⅳ Maps