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Carolyn McCarthy, Jean Bernard Carillet, Kevin Raub, Greg BenchwickAmazon.comBooks |
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Mysteries of Easter Island (South America Series) eBookBrian LawrensonEaster Island |
Mysteries of Easter Island (South American) eBook The myths and statues of Easter Island remain one of the world’s most intriguing unsolved mysteries. Where do they come from? How were they carved? Who erected them? How were they erected? Why were they toppled? What is the Birdman Cult? What happened to the population of Easter Island? These are all questions that have been asked. Join a couple who have visited most of the island of the Pacific as they unravel the secrets of Easter Island. |
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Easter Island (Chile) 1ITM CanadaBooks |
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The Mystery of Easter IslandKatherine RoutledgeBooks |
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A Companion To Easter Island (Guide To Rapa Nui)James Grant PeterkinBooks |
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Paul G. Bahn, John FlenleyAmazon.comBooks |
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Frommer's Chile and Easter Island (Frommer's Complete Guides) Nicholas Gill
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Among Stone Giants Jo Anne Van Tilburg
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Easter IslandFelipe L. SozaBooks |
Island at the End of the World On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World , a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards. A small canoe with Polynesians brought the first humans to Easter Island in 700 CE, and when boat travel in the South Pacific drastically decreased around 1500, the Easter Islanders were forced to adapt in order to survive their isolation. Adaptation, Fischer asserts, was a continuous thread in the life of Easter Island: the first European visitors, who viewed the awe-inspiring monolithic busts in 1722, set off hundreds of years of violent warfare, trade, and disease—from the smallpox, wars, and Great Death that decimated the island to the late nineteenth-century Catholic missionaries who tried to "save" it to a despotic Frenchman who ... |
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Island at the End of the WorldSteven Roger FischerEaster Island |
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