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The Statues That Walked, Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

The Statues That Walked, Unraveling the Mystery of Easter Island

by Carl Lipo | Terry Hunt

  • ARCHAEOLOGY
  • 2011
  • HARD COVER
  • 237 PAGES

Drawing on archaeological evidence and their own work, Hunt and Lip challenge Jared Diamond's view of eco-catastrophe in this convincing new history of Rapa Nui. (EIL26, $26.00)

Rapa Nui, Island of Memory

Rapa Nui, Island of Memory

by 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 since the 1980s. (EIL20, $25.00)

Easter Island, the Essential Guide

Easter Island, the Essential Guide

by Kay Sanger

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 169 PAGES

Sanger covers the history, archaeology, people and practicalities in this authoritative guide, published by the Easter Island Foundation. (EIL17, $20.00)

Easter Island Map

Easter Island Map

by ITMB

  • 2006
  • MAP

A colorful topographic map (1:30,000). (EIL06, $10.95)

 
Easter Island, The Ceremonial Center of Orongo

Easter Island, The Ceremonial Center of Orongo


by Alan Drake | Georgia Lee

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 1992
  • PAPER

An illustrated guide to this important site and its iconography. (EIL07, $15.00)

Insight Guide Chile

Insight Guide Chile


by Insight Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 380 PAGES

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)

Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed


by Jared Diamond

  • HISTORY
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 575 PAGES

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)

Island at the End of the World

Island at the End of the World


by Steven Roger Fischer

  • HISTORY
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 215 PAGES

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)

Inventing

Inventing "Easter Island"


by Beverly Haun

  • ARCHAEOLOGY
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 332 PAGES

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)

On the Road of the Winds

On the Road of the Winds


by Patrick Vinton Kirch

  • ARCHAEOLOGY
  • 2001
  • PAPER
  • 424 PAGES

An excellent scholarly review of the prehistory and archaeology of Pacific civilizations before European contact. (PAC101, $39.95)

Splendid Isolation, Art of Easter Island

Splendid Isolation, Art of Easter Island


by 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. (EIL12, $19.95)

Easter Island, Island of Enigmas

Easter Island, Island of Enigmas


by John Dos Passos

  • TRAVEL NARRATIVE
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 150 PAGES

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

Kon-Tiki, Across the Pacific by Raft


by Thor Heyerdahl | F. H. Lyon

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1990
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

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)

The Happy Isles of Oceania

The Happy Isles of Oceania


by Paul Theroux

  • EXPLORATION
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 480 PAGES
  • FAVORITE

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)

The Mystery of Easter Island

The Mystery of Easter Island


by Katherine Routledge

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 404 PAGES

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

We, the Navigators, The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific


by David Lewis

  • EXPLORATION
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 464 PAGES

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

Easter Island


by Jennifer Vanderbes

  • LITERATURE
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 308 PAGES

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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