The Mystery of Easter Island - Couverture souple

Routledge, Katherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1716020891 ISBN 13 : 9781716020896

Editeur : lulu.com, 2020

Synopsis

"All the seashore is lined with numbers of stone idols, with their backs turned towards the sea, which caused us no little wonder, because we saw no tool of any kind for working these figures." So wrote, a century and a half ago, one of the earliest navigators to visit the Island of Easter in the South-east Pacific. Ever since that day passing ships have found it incomprehensible that a few hundred natives should have been able to make, move, and erect numbers of great stone monuments, some of which are over thirty feet in height; they have marvelled and passed on. As the world's traffic has increased Easter Island has still stood outside its routes, quiet and remote, with its story undeciphered. What were these statues of which the present inhabitants know nothing?... Whence came the people who reached this remote spot? Did they arrive from South America, 2,000 miles to the eastward? Or did they sail against the prevailing wind from the distant islands to the west?...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: lulu.com
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1716020891
• ISBN 13: 9781716020896
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 508
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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