Tikal!

This is not a book but a new game we finally got since it has been reprinted. It's basically an "Adventure through Mayan ruins" game, like Indiana Jones. We have not played it yet, although I looked through the game last night and read the rule book, so yes, I guess it does kind of count as a "What is SunPath Reading" entry.

It has the drama of "exploring" a jungle by each player drawing and placing a tile on the board, which initially is mostly just deep foliage, except for 4 explored areas - 2 temples, a base camp, and I think the 4th is a blank jungle.
After placing the tile, they "have 10 action points to explore Tikal" - which means that they can spend these points in a variety of ways - placing workers or leaders, establishing base camps, digging up treasure (treasure tiles have an area where the treasure tokens are placed - players who have a worker in that tile can grab treasure and get points fo it), moving workers or leaders, and "uncovering" temples. The uncovering is really interesting as physically you are actually placing numbered tiles and "building" the temple higher (kind of like in its cousin game Torres) but the concept is that you are "uncovering" them.
As the point totals get bigger the tiles are smaller so in the end the temple actually looks like a temple with some structure.
The game box is also nicely designed - each of the 3 sizes of temple tiles has its own place, as do the treasure tiles, etc.
The scoring rounds happen when a player draws a volcano - the hexes to explore are sorted by letter appearing on their backs, so the volcanoes I think appear in B, D, and F - the letters go to G, so there are 3 scoring rounds plus the final scoring round at the end.
So I am looking forward to playing this if Dave is not too tired after coming back from the As game, and this is certainly distracting me from working....