At some point in the islands history, when both the art and the population were increasing, the islands resources were. Pdf on mar 20, 2016, carl philipp lipo and others published. Born to a wealthy and prestigious english quaker family in 1866, katherine rebelled against their strict victorian values, becoming one of the first female graduates of oxford university and the first woman archaeologist to work in polynesia. It details routledges journey by yacht from england to south america, around patagonia to chile and on to easter island, giving an account of its life, history and folklore. In addition to a depleted ecosystem, easter island history is rife with conflict. The nearest island, which has people living on it, is pitcairn island and its 2,075km away. Easton press sells the worlds greatest books, bound in genuine leather and accented with 22kt gold. Im so glad i decided to read it because its just a great book full of interesting information, some of which id never come across before, and such a lovely double story. Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on earth, easter island, located in the midpacific ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated. They took land from the weaker clans and toppled many moai statues. The great sebastian englert, a priest and scientist who loved the islanders like his predecessor brother eyraud, came to the conclusion that the islands culture had been defined after the arrival of three consecutive. The mysteries of easter of island is a detailed text that will keep students engaged and leave them with many of their own questions to consider. Jan 10, 2019 the huge stone figures of easter island have beguiled explorers, researchers and the wider world for centuries, but now experts say they have cracked one of the biggest mysteries. Jo anne van tilburg, founder of the easter island statue project and a scientist at the.
Easter island history the new age draw new agers are enthralled by places like easter island, the pyramids, and stonehenge. To its original inhabitants the island is known as rapa nui, and its population is predominantly of polynesian descent. Easter island is known for its isolation and its statues, as well as its startling degree of population decline. The history of easter island is spellbinding, mysterious, controversial, and filled. Easter island has always interested me so ive read a lot of nonfiction books about it. Pack attended ambassador college in pasadena, california, entered the worldwide church of god ministry in 1971, and was personally trained by its founder, herbert w. A major enigma in the recent history of easter island rapa nui fig. Easter island was named on easter day, 1722, by the dutch navigator jakob roggeven. Located on the remote chilean territory of easter island, they tell a mysterious story of the island s early people and their obsession with rock carvings. Mystery of the stone giants by catherine orliac 7 times the art of easter island by thor heyerdahl 7 times. Captain roggeveen renamed the island easter island. The secrets of easter island history smithsonian magazine.
Easter island books tagged easter island librarything. Pdf chronology and easter island prehistory researchgate. Ferdon, jr and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Discover this dazzling, diverse south american country with the liveliest and most comprehensive guidebook on the market. Best books on easter island easter island forum tripadvisor. Im particularly interested in books that will give me the sort of info id get if i went on a guided tour. Skeletal biology of the ancient rapanui easter islanders. He has authored 80 books and booklets, personally established over 50 congregations, and appeared. Gray, founder of the world monuments fund originally called international fund for monu ments, visited easter island in the early 1970s. Easter island is the story of two women who went to the island and did research.
Katherine routledge is a central figure in the history of easter island, one of the worlds most remote and mysterious locales. There is no such flummery in steven fischers new book. Also, pop over to scholastic parents and check out my latest post about creating a book hunt. It lies in the pacific ocean more than 2,000 miles west of the nearest continent south america. The turbulent history of easter island 9781861892829. Elsa beazley arrives at easter island in 1916 with her new husband and her mentally handicapped sister. Many books about easter island are superficial fluff. Easter island remains one of the most mysterious places in the world.
The island stands in isolation 1,200 miles 1,900 kilometres east of pitcairn island and 2,200 miles west of chile. Each book is a collector edition that is as magnificent to see as it is to read. The huge stone figures of easter island have beguiled explorers, researchers and the wider world for centuries, but now experts say they have cracked one of the biggest mysteries. As befits the head of the institute of polynesian languages and literatures in auckland, new zealand, he has produced a scholarly and readable account of the islands turbulent history. List of books and articles about easter island online. The book begins with the story of how seaver kurze came to easter island and initiated her research on the. Pdf on the geology of easter island sergei rjabchikov. The spread of european diseases, especially smallpox, and the raids of spanish slavers reduced the population to slightly more than 100 by 1887. Just like easter egg hunt only you find books and read them as you go along. The best book i could find when i bought tourist books on easter island while researching my trip was a companion to easter island guide to rapa nui. It was perfect because not only does it tell you history and legend, but also things you need to know day to day, plus fun stuff like the passport stamp at the post office.
Whether you plan to sail around the glaciers of patagonia or soak your bones in volcanic hot springs, taste wines in the picturesque maule valley or wonder at the mysterious easter island, the rough guide to chile and easter island will show you the ideal. Books about the island tend to fall into two categories. Lonely planet chile and easter island country travel guide. Founder and pastor general of the restored church of god, editorinchief of the real truth magazine, and voice of the world to come program, david c. It is a concise guide to the history, culture, and archaeological sites of rapa nui. Archaeology of easter island abebooks shop for books. The moai are some of the worlds most fascinating and widelyrecognised monolithic statues. It is the easternmost outpost of the polynesian island world and is famous for its giant stone statues.
Apr 21, 2019 download pdf the enigmas of easter island free. Here you can learn about the easter island statues and find out more about this fascinating place. He has authored 80 books and booklets, personally established over 50 congregations, and appeared as a guest on the history channel. Among the numerous questions regarding easter island many of them still unexplained, are the origin and the date of the first immigrants. A brief history of easter islands incredible moai statues. Art of easter island kjellgren, eric, with contributions by jo anne van tilburg and adrienne l. Mar 21, 20 here are some great books about easter to read before and after the bunny hops over to your house. About half of the inhabitants are of polynesian stock.
The turbulent history of easter island by steven roger fischer 8 times easter island. Eifs bestselling guidebook, easter island, the essential guide. The mystery of easter island travel smithsonian magazine. Pdf history of easter island on the rocks researchgate. Located on the remote chilean territory of easter island, they tell a mysterious story of the islands early people and their obsession with rock carvings. Adventure novels, life is an adventure, great books to read, my books, latest books. It is the easternmost outpost of the polynesian island world. They are tall sculptures made out of volcanic rock, with disproportionately large heads. It lies in the pacific ocean more than 2,000 miles west of the nearest. The easter island foundation promoting the conservation.
Pdf easter island the forgotten book by the easter island. Pack has reached many millions around the globe with the most powerful truths of the bibleunknown to almost all. Of volcanic origin, easter island is mostly covered with grasslands and is swept by strong trade winds. Much research has been carried out on these famous statues and many of the damaged and fallen statues have since been restored around. Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on earth, easter island, located in the midpacific ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated its inhabitants, the rapa nui, have endured famines, epidemics of disease and cannibalism, civil war, environmental collapse, slave raids, various colonial contacts, and have seen their population crash on more than one occasi. Elsa pendleton travels from england to easter island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the royal geographical society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. The great sebastian englert, a priest and scientist who loved the islanders like his predecessor brother eyraud, came to the conclusion that the islands culture had been defined after the arrival of three consecutive invasions. Join two intrepid young women as they delve into the centuriesold mysteries of easter island. Strong cultural coverage gets under the skin of this skinny country including a special feature on wine. The natives were fenced in around guarded borders in the area that today is the town of hanga roa to prevent sheep theft. More than 60% of these people descend from the native rapa nui people.
Easter island guide book easter island visitor information. In the book, routledge and her companions explore the secret caves, ancient roads, pyramid. With its implausibly huge sculptures and indecipherable tablets, easter island remains an enigma. Metpublications is a portal to the mets comprehensive publishing program featuring over five decades of met books, journals, bulletins, and online publications on art history available to read, download andor search for free. It starts out noting all the secular aspects of the holiday and how they are fun but are not the real reason you celebrate. Restrained passion and conflicted loyalties drive this sweeping debut novel, in which two women of different eras experience the mysteries of easter island. The story of easter island reads like a preindustrial version of the lorax. In the 19th century natives from other polyne sian islands called it rapa nui, the big rapa, by comparison with the smaller rapa island. I bought lots of books to help plan my trip and this was easily the most useful.
The book explains the facts about easter and how its the celebration of jesuss death and resurrection. Easter island, an isosceles triangle of volcanic rock in the pacific ocean, is two thousand miles from both tahiti and chile and one of the most isolated places on earth. This is the second guidebook we carried for our week on the island. Other scientists who work on the island also remain skeptical of hunts later colonization date of 1200 a. Search the worlds most comprehensive index of fulltext books. Born to a wealthy and prestigious english quaker family in 1866, katherine rebelled against victorian values, becoming one of. For decades, scientists have studied this remote island in the south pacific and its hundreds of giant stone statues known as moai. There is also a small thread of a german world war i naval squadron present in the book. Slowly unearthing the island s haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever. Easter island was discovered, forgotten and then rediscovered. But isolation has helped preserve the 1,500yearold mysterious congregation of volcanic rock sculptures maoi thats the islands. Search the history of over 431 billion web pages on the internet. If youre interested, the easiest access is by air from santiago or tahiti.
Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. This guidebook on easter island is written by james grantpeterkin, a native easter islander, and shares local tips to see easter island. Easter island, chilean dependency in the eastern pacific ocean. Among all such vanished civilizations that of the former polynesian society on easter island remain unsurpassed in mystery and isolation. The mystery of easter island by katherine routledge 9 times citadels of mystery by l. What begins as familial duty for elsa becomes a grand adventure. This is the first novel ive seen about this island of mystery. The moai statutes date back nearly a thousand years and are the work of the early inhabitants of easter island. Much research has been carried out on these famous statues and many of the damaged and fallen statues have since been restored around the island. My selfguided tour plan leads me to another question.
Natural and anthropogenic drivers of cultural change on easter island. Easter island, with an area of only 64 square miles, is the worlds most isolated scrap of habitable land. Jan, 2010 in addition to a depleted ecosystem, easter island history is rife with conflict. Easter island had about 5,800 people living there in 2012. Head of a moat on temporary exhibition at the seagram building in new york city.
Strong cultural coverage gets under the skin of this skinny country including a special. With a serious shortage of resources, the various clans eventually began destroying each other. Yes, the same ones who built the pyramids in egypt stopped in at easter island and made all those statues. This concise account of easter islan history presents some new scholarhsip and rehashes the same stories of the islands remarkable facts and people. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read easter island. It was given this name by the dutch com mander jacob roggeveen, who first sighted it on easter sunday, 1722. Well shot footage of easter island especially interesting because it shows some of the landforms which suggest to some geologists that a massive tidal wave or several 150 200 feet high swept this island at one time, estimated to have occurred about 15002000 years ago and it looks to some like part of the island sunk in. On easter sunday, april 5, 1722, a dutch sea captain named jacob roggeveen landed his ship on an island known as te pito o te henua, meaning the center of the world. Easter islands location in the midst of the south pacific is. Well shot footage of easter island especially interesting because it shows some of the landforms which suggest to some geologists that a massive tidal wave or several 150 200 feet high swept this island at one time, estimated to have occurred about 15002000 years ago and it looks to some like part of the island sunk in the process. Easter island today, easter island also known as rapa nui is a primarily pastoral grassland island in the southeastern pacific ocean, some 3,600 kilometres west of chile. This book takes a christian viewpoint vs the many secular easter books focusing on egg hunts and the easter bunny. The ideas of this paper emerged during the writing of a popular book to be. Easter island history the island itself many people have found easter island history very fascinating.
The average height of a moai is about ft 4m and can weigh around. Its inhabitants, the rapa nui, have endured famines, epidemics of disease and cannibalism, civil war, environmental collapse, slave raids, various colonial contacts, and have seen their population crash on more than one. Our extraordinary books are an elegant addition to any home or office, and make the perfect gift for christmas, birthdays, fathers day, mothers day or any. Jan 21, 2011 easter island, an isosceles triangle of volcanic rock in the pacific ocean, is two thousand miles from both tahiti and chile and one of the most isolated places on earth. Located in the south pacific more than 2,000 miles off the chilean coast, easter islands not the easiest place to reach. J easter island history 6 02 book ofers 16 03 guest article. It is one of the most isolated islands in the world. This title features expanded coverage of patagonia, including new adventure options in puerto natales and more information on chiles crown jewel, torres del paine national park. First published in 1919, this work provides information on that most mysterious of islands easter island rapa nui. The world monuments fund on easter island opposite. Authors have also written books about the island without actually visiting, neglecting to do their homework. Download pdf the enigmas of easter island free epubmobi.
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