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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)
  The Complete Guide to Easter Island
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)
  Easter Island, Mystery of the Stone Giants
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)
  Splendid Isolation, Art of Easter Island
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 Map



Also Recommended
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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