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READING AND TRAVEL GUIDE
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The Statues That Walked, Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island
• Carl Lipo
• Terry Hunt
ARCHAEOLOGY •
2011 •
HARD COVER
• 237 PAGES
Hunt and Lip tackle the accepted wisdom of the fate of the Easter Islanders in this bold new history of Rapa Nui based on the latest archaeological evidence.
(EIL26, $26.00) |
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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) |
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Easter Island, the Essential Guide
• Kay Sanger
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 169 PAGES
An archaeologist who has worked on Rapa Nui since the 1980s and past president of the Easter Island Foundation, Sanger covers the history, archaeology, people and practicalities of Easter Island in this authoritative guide.
(EIL17, $20.00) |
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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) |
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Also Recommended
Easter Island, The Ceremonial Center of Orongo
• Alan Drake
• Georgia Lee
• GUIDEBOOK
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An illustrated guide to this important site and its iconography.
(EIL07, $15.00)
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Insight Guide Chile
• Insight Guides
• GUIDEBOOK
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This glossy guide provides a full-color introduction by a team of experts to the land, people, history and attractions of Chile. Brief background essays highlight important topics. With many local and regional maps.
(CHI03, $23.99)
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Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
• Jared Diamond
• HISTORY
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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). This revised edition includes a new afterword.
(GEN324, $18.00)
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Island at the End of the World
• Steven Roger Fischer
• HISTORY
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Fischer's cultural and political history takes in the full sweep of Easter Island from prehistory through civil rights protests of the 1960s.
(EIL18, $24.95)
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Inventing "Easter Island"
• Beverly Haun
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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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, $36.00)
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On the Road of the Winds
• Patrick Vinton Kirch
• ARCHAEOLOGY
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An excellent scholarly review of the prehistory and archaeology of Pacific civilizations before European contact.
(PAC101, $39.95)
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Splendid Isolation, Art of Easter Island
• Eric Kjellgren
• ART & ARCHITECTURE
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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)
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Easter Island, Island of Enigmas
• John Dos Passos
• TRAVEL NARRATIVE
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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)
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Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft
• Thor Heyerdahl
• F. H. Lyon
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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The Happy Isles of Oceania
• Paul Theroux
• EXPLORATION
• FAVORITE
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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 in this wickedly funny, wide-ranging tale.
(PAC03, $15.95)
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The Mystery of Easter Island
• Katherine Routledge
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific
• David Lewis
• EXPLORATION
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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)
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Easter Island
• Jennifer Vanderbes
• LITERATURE
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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)
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