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The Complete Guide to Easter Island
Shawn McLaughlin
GUIDEBOOK 2007 PAPER 350 PAGES
Published by the Easter Island Foundation, this is the best guide to the island available, covering the history, people and practicalities in detail. With a selection of maps and black-and-white photographs. This revised second edition includes revised maps and illustrations and a section of color photographs.
(EIL17, $25.00)
Easter Island, Mystery of the Stone Giants
Catherine Orliac Paul Bahn
ARCHAEOLOGY 1995 PAPER 143 PAGES
HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
A pocket-size encyclopedia of archaeology and culture. This slim volume features color photographs and illustrations, excerpts from key works and a good synopsis of the archaeological history. Part of the acclaimed "Discoveries" series, it is a concise overview of the magnificent archaeological finds at Easter Island.
(EIL01, $12.95)
Splendid Isolation, Art of Easter Island
Eric Kjellgren
ART & ARCHITECTURE 2001 PAPER 64 PAGES
A survey of the art and culture of the Rapa Nui, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It features reproductions of 50 stunning works of art dating from the 13th to the late 19th centuries, which include a massive stone moai, wooden sculpture, birdman and other figurines and carved wooden tablets with rare script. With 70 black-and-white and 15 color illustrations.
(EIL12, $19.95)
Easter Island Map
ITMB
2006 MAP
A colorful and detailed travel map to Easter Island at a scale of 1:30,000.
(EIL06, $10.95)
Easter Island, The Ceremonial Center of Orongo
Alan Drake
Georgia Lee
GUIDEBOOK
An illustrated guide to this important site and its iconography.
(EIL07, $15.00)
Lonely Planet Chile and Easter Island
Wayne Bernhardson
GUIDEBOOK
This practical guide includes a chapter on Easter Island in addition to a comprehensive overview of Chile, its history and culture. With a section of color photographs and 90 maps.
(CHI04, $24.99)
Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
Jared Diamond
HISTORY
Diamond tackles nothing less than the history and fate of civilization in this compelling book in which he offers case studies, present and past, of societies that work and societies that do not, devoting 100 carefully reasoned pages, for example, to the fate of the Norse settlements in Greenland (climatic change, Inuit) and another big section on Easter Island (deforestation, hubris).
(GEN324, $18.00)
The Riddle of the Pacific
John Macmillan Brown
CULTURAL PORTRAIT
An illustrated survey of ancient civilizations of the Pacific.
(EIL11, $16.95)
Inventing "Easter Island"
Beverly Haun
ARCHAEOLOGY
Theoretical in her approach, Haun shows how 18th century Dutch, Spanish, British and French explorers represented the people and culture of Easter Island. Richly illustrated, it includes excerpts from the journals and writing of Cook, La Perouse and others.
(EIL24, $35.00)
On the Road of the Winds
Patrick Vinton Kirch
ARCHAEOLOGY
An excellent scholarly review of the prehistory and archaeology of Pacific civilizations before European contact.
(PAC101, $35.95)
8 Men and a Duck
Nick J. Thorpe
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
The account of a comically misguided attempt to sail a reed boat from Huatajata to Easter Island ala Thor Heyerdahl. The title of this very British quest describes the crew aboard the vessel, which included the author.
(EIL14, $13.00)
Easter Island, Island of Enigmas
John Dos Passos
TRAVEL NARRATIVE
A great traveler and amateur archaeologist, novelist Dos Passos mixes travel and observation with the history of exploration of Rapanui in this brief, engaging travelogue.
(EIL23, $15.00)
Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft
Thor Heyerdahl
F. H. Lyon
EXPLORATION
The hugely popular account of a daring 1947 voyage sailing along the Humboldt and Equatorial currents from Peru to Tahiti. Apart from the sheer adventure, Heyerdahl wanted to show the world that Polynesians could have settled the region. With photographs.
(PAC10, $5.99)
Rapa Nui, Island of Memory
Georgia Lee
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
Lee's lively, illustrated memoir of fieldwork on Rapa Nui since the 1980s celebrates the people and life on the island.
(EIL20, $25.00)
The Happy Isles of Oceania, Paddling the Pacific
Paul Theroux
EXPLORATION
FAVORITE
Here's Theroux at his wickedly funny and open-minded best. The peripatetic author flies off to Australia and New Zealand with a kayak and ends up exploring much of Melanesia and Polynesia, including Tonga, Fiji and the Marquesas.
(PAC03, $15.95)
The Mystery of Easter Island
Katherine Routledge
EXPLORATION
The record of a remarkable 1913 voyage from Southampton to Easter Island, presented here in a facsimile edition with sketch maps, engravings and hundreds of photographs. It's a wonderful look at early impressions of the island, captivating in its period detail.
(EIL10, $16.95)
We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
David Lewis
EXPLORATION
This engaging classic examines how Stone Age Polynesians may have navigated the Pacific. The scholarly volume will appeal to seafarers and modern Pacific travelers.
(PAC35, $27.95)
Easter Island
Jennifer Vanderbes
LITERATURE
In this mesmerizing novel, Vanderbes spins parallel stories of two young women on Easter Island, one an archaeologist with a 1913 expedition and the other an American botanist who visits 60 years later.
(EIL13, $13.00)
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
LITERATURE
It's worth revisiting this classic before exploring Selkirk Island.
(PAC30, $8.00)
The Moai Murders
Lyn Hamilton
MYSTERY
Hamilton enjoyably interweaves travel, archaeology and murder this archaeological mystery, where inexplicably Rapanui conference participants start turning up dead.
(EIL22, $7.99)
Flowers of the Pacific Island Seashore
W. Arthur Whistler
FIELD GUIDE
A photographic field guide to the seaside plants found throughout the Pacific islands, including Tonga, Samoa, Tahiti, the Cook Islands, Fiji and Micronesia. Includes an island-by-island checklist.
(PAC20, $19.00)
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