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Title: Easter Island: Mystery of the Stone Giants (Discoveries) by Catherine Orliac, Michel Orliac, Paul G. Bahn ISBN: 0810928345 Publisher: Harry N Abrams Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: A Mystery and A Tragedy
Comment: Some mysteries may never be solved. Where did the Sumerian language come from? Who built the stones at Carnac and why? Who was buried in the Great Pyramid.
What do the mysterious inscriptions found at Easter Island say? And what were the stone statues for. Those are the mysteries of Easter Island.
The tragedy was what happened to the Easter Islanders. The westerners were not all evil, and the islanders themselves were not all good (e.g., they practiced human sacrifice) but the enslavement, kidnapping, rape etc. of the islanders by western maritime visitors is shocking even today. And the book tells that story too. So it is not just a book about the mysteries of Easter Island but about the almost complete destruction of it by Europeans and I am sad to say Americans.
And the two are related. If slavers had not taken hundreds of islanders to Chile to work as slaves, including the king and prince of the island, perhaps enough of the culture would have survived for western scholars to meet with those who could read the writings of the tablets. Perhaps we would really know why and how the islanders built their mysterious giants.
This book (published by Harry Abrams) is an English translation of one of a series of small, lavishly illustrated French historical guides. One really cannot go wrong with this series, whether in French or in English.
Everyone involved in this Easter Island book did a great job, and they produced a wonderful way for a beginner to learn about some of the strangest archeological sites on our planet.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent
Comment: This book provides readers with many of the facts of Easter Island. I had heard about the stone statues, but had little knowledge of the history of the island. This book provided quite a bit of information on the history and covered all the theories of the statues and what they might mean and how they got there. An excellent book!
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book to-date about Easter Island
Comment: This is a translation of "Des dieux regardent
les etoiles -- Les derniers secrets de l'Ile de
Paques" ("Gods gaze at the stars -- The
last secrets of Easter Island"), Catherine and
Michel Orliac's excellent little book about
Easter Island. Easter Island and its mysteries
-- from its huge statues to its strange hieroglyphics -- have been a magnet for crankery
of all types, from the benign to the outrageous.
How refreshing, then, it is to see such a delicious book, factual and balanced, with high-quality authentic illustrations on every page, every one of them well chosen and to the point. Almost everything you may ever want to know
about Easter Island -- short of a tourist guide --
is there, with full sources and references. How
so much information could have been packed in
so few pages is a wonder.
Complete, attractive and scholarly, this little book will appeal to all, even to the specialists. The illustrations alone are a never-ending source of wonder and delight.
Highly recommended.
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Title: The Mystery of Easter Island (Mystic Travellers Series) by Katherine Routledge ISBN: 0932813488 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Easter Island : Giant Stone Statues Tell of a Rich and Tragic Past by Caroline Arnold ISBN: 0395876095 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 28 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Splendid Isolation: Art of Easter Island by Eric Kjellgren, Jo Anne Van Tilburg, Adrienne Kaeppler ISBN: 0300090781 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title:Secrets of the Lost Empires II: Easter Island ASIN: B00004R60Y Publisher: Wgbh Pubns Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $19.95 |
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Title: Easter Island by Carlos Mordo ISBN: 1552976211 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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