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Author : Thor Heyerdahl
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Aku-Aku written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation made under the personal supervision of the author.
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Author : Thor Heyerdahl
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Aku-Aku. The Secret of Easter Island. [With Plates and Maps.]. written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Aku-Aku written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Routledge
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The mystery of Easter island written by Katherine Routledge and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The mystery of Easter island" by Katherine Routledge. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Author : Steven Roger Fischer
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861894163
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Island at the End of the World written by Steven Roger Fischer and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 declared sole claim of the island and was soon killed by the remaining 111 islanders. The rituals, leaders, and religions of the Easter Islanders evolved with all of these events, and Fischer is just as attentive to the island's cultural developments as he is to its foreign invasions. Bringing his history into the modern era, Fischer examines the colonization and annexation of Easter Island by Chile, including the Rapanui people's push for civil rights in 1964 and 1965, by which they gained full citizenship and freedom of movement on the island. As travel to and interest in the island rapidly expand, Island at the End of the World is an essential history of this mysterious site.
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0006545300
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)
Download or read book The Ra Expeditions written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No further information has been provided for this title.
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 9780345347275
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (472 download)
Download or read book The Maldive Mystery written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1987-11 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thor Heyerdahl
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ISBN 13 : 9780049101043
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Maldive Mystery written by Thor Heyerdahl and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erik Hesselberg
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Kon-Tiki and I written by Erik Hesselberg and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author relates the voyage of the Kon-Tiki expedition across 4300 miles of ocean in a raft as he experienced and sketched it.
Author : Beverley Haun
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098886
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Inventing 'Easter Island' written by Beverley Haun and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as it is known to its inhabitants, is located in the Pacific Ocean, 3600 kilometres west of South America. Annexed by Chile in 1888, the island has been a source of fascination for the world beyond the island since the first visit by Europeans in 1722 due to its intriguing statues and complex history. Inventing 'Easter Island' examines narrative strategies and visual conventions in the discursive construction of 'Easter Island' as distinct from the native conception of 'Rapa Nui.' It looks at the geographic imaginary that pervaded the eighteenth century, a period of overwhelming imperial expansion. Beverley Haun begins with a discussion of forces that shaped the European version of island culture and goes on to consider the representation of that culture in the form of explorer texts and illustrations, as well as more recent texts and images in comic books and kitsch from off the island. Throughout, 'Easter Island' is used as a case study of the impact of imperialism on the view of a culture from outside. The study hinges on three key points - an inquiry into the formation of 'Easter Island' as a subject; an examination of how the constructed space and culture have been shaped, reshaped, and represented in discursive spaces; and a discussion of cultural memory and how the constraints of foreign texts and images have shaped thought and action about 'Easter Island.' Richly illustrated and unique in its findings, Inventing 'Easter Island' will appeal to cultural theorists, anthropologists, educators, and anyone interested in the history of the South Pacific.
Author : Jan J. Boersema
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107027705
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Survival of Easter Island written by Jan J. Boersema and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of its collapse.
Author : Ian Conrich
Publisher : Frank & Timme GmbH
ISBN 13 : 373290265X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (329 download)
Download or read book Rapa Nui – Easter Island written by Ian Conrich and published by Frank & Timme GmbH. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easter Island (or Rapa Nui) has long captivated travellers and explorers since it was first encountered by European voyagers in 1722. The island’s colossal stone carvings (moai) have been the primary attraction, yet these have overshadowed the broader culture of the Rapanui people. This significant edited collection brings together thirteen specialists from eight countries in a series of studies that address the pre-history, history, contemporary society and popular culture of Easter Island. Consideration is given to both the Rapanui and western cultures with topics covered including archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, tourism, literature, comic books and music. This is a multidisciplinary book with subjects ranging from fact to fiction and from Thor Heyerdahl and Katherine Routledge to Indiana Jones and Lara Croft.
Author : Michael Capek
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 0822575833
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (225 download)
Download or read book Easter Island written by Michael Capek and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the mysterious stone heads of Easter Island.
Author : Kenneth Treister
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826352642
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Easter Island's Silent Sentinels written by Kenneth Treister and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This richly illustrated book of the history, culture, and art of Easter Island is the first to examine in detail the island's vernacular architecture, often overshadowed by its giant stone statues"--Provided by publisher.
Author : John A. Torres
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
ISBN 13 : 1545749531
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (457 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Mystery of Easter Island written by John A. Torres and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To some, Easter Island is just a tiny bit of volcanic rock in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. To others, it is the source of one of mankind's greatest mysteries. Easter Island is home to hundreds of giant statues that people built centuries ago, but no one knows why. The statues are amazing. Some of them wear headdresses made from red stone. Others have large pieces of coral for eyes. Almost as mysterious as the statues themselves is the fact that so many of them were never finished. In fact, tools used to make the huge stone structures were left right near the unfinished works. What happened on Easter Island? And why does it continue to captivate us?
Author : Kathy Pelta
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 9780822548904
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (489 download)
Download or read book Rediscovering Easter Island written by Kathy Pelta and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the many visits made by explorers, missionaries, businessmen, scientists, and others to Easter Island since the late 1600s and what they revealed about life on this remote Pacific island.
Author : Paul Bahn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442266562
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Easter Island, Earth Island written by Paul Bahn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Easter Island, isolated deep in the South Pacific and now a World Heritage Site, was home to a fascinating prehistoric culture—one that produced massive stone effigies (the moai) and the birdman cult—and yet much of the island’s past remains shrouded in mystery. Where did the islanders come from, and when? How did Rapa Nui culture evolve over the centuries? How, and why, did their natural environment change over time? Paul Bahn and John Flenley guide readers through the mysteries and enigmas of Rapa Nui, incorporating the records of early explorers, folk legends, and archaeological evidence along the way. They cover the island’s geological and environmental history and explore its flora and fauna, illustrating how human actions affected the natural environment of the island. This fourth edition draws in: recent DNA studies of ancient human and animal bones as well as plant remains; evolving understandings of how the moai were transported; and current efforts to reforest the island.
