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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)
	Rapa Nui, Island of Memory  •  Georgia Lee BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •  2006 •  PAPER  • 212 PAGES Full of anecdote and incident, Lee's lively memoir of fieldwork on Rapa Nui celebrates the people and life on the island over the last 25 years. With many photographs documenting the good old days. Published by the Easter Island Foundation. (EIL20, $25.00)
	Island at the End of the World, The Turbulent History of Easter Island  •  Steven Roger Fischer HISTORY •  2006 •  PAPER  • 304 PAGES A cultural and political history of Easter Island from settlement through modern days. Fischer, director of the Institute of Polynesian Languages and Literature in Auckland, includes an account of European contact and the civil rights protests in the 1960s. With a few black-and-white photographs and a poor map. (EIL18, $24.95)
	Easter Island Map  •   ITMB 2006 •  MAP A colorful and detailed travel map to Easter Island at a scale of 1:30,000. One Side. 24x37 inches. (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  •   Lonely Planet   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide includes a chapter on Easter Island in addition to a comprehensive overview of Chile, its history and culture. (CHI04, $24.99)
	Moon Handbook Chile, Including Easter Island  •  Wayne Bernhardson   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A practical guide in the Moon series, packed not only with travel necessities (hotels, restaurants, sights), but also with a good overview of history and its destination. (CHI82, $22.95)
	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, $39.95)
	Prehistoric Rapa Nui, Landscape and Settlement Archaeology at Hanga HoŽ onu  •  Christopher Stevenson  •  Sonia Haoa Cardinali   • ARCHAEOLOGY  •  This eye-opening book raises new theories about the development of agricultural practices on Easter Island and the ability of the ancient society to adapt and preserve natural resources. With a foldout map. (EIL25, $30.00)
	Splendid Isolation, Art of Easter Island  •  Eric Kjellgren   • ART & ARCHITECTURE  •  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. (EIL12, $19.95)
	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  •  An amateur archaeologist, novelist Dos Passos mixes travel and observation with the history of exploration of Rapanui in this brief, engaging book. (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, $12.95)
	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  •  Captivating in its period detail, this record of a remarkable 1913 scientific voyage from Southampton to Easter Island includes unforgettable early impressions of the island. (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, $31.99)
	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, $9.00)

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