Island At The End Of World: Turbulent History Easter Steven Roger Fischer Reaktion Books Αγγλικά Βιβλία World

Famed For Its Breathtaking Isolation Easter Island Was A Verdant South-Sea Idyll When Small Canoeful Of Polynesians Arrived In C Ad 700 Centuries Later The Island\ S Statues Were Famous Throughout World This Book Presents Comprehensive History Told By Writer Who Is Intimately Familiar With People And Their Extraordinary Story Voyaging South Pacific Became Far Less Widespread Around 1500 Islanders Stranded On Desert-Like Isle Forced To Adapt Survive First European Visitors 1722 Encountered Thriving Total Surrounded Huge Architectural Platforms Fitted Stones Topped Hundreds Monolithic Busts Subsequent Intruders Brought Trade Disease Violence Adapted Change Too Through Cultural Re-Invention: New Leaders Rituals Gods Steven Roger Fischer Relates Compelling Unique Region: How Wars Smallpox Great Death Decimated Catholic Missionaries 1866 Relieve Suffering Dying Despotic Frenchman Claimed Himself But Then Killed Remaining Population Only 111 Author Also Examines Modern Colonization Annexation Chile Peaceful Insistent Civil Rights Movement 1964-65 Today Has Increased As Tourism From 2 000 1991 20 2001 Continues Be Managed Indigenous Rapanui Foreign Interest Never Been So Keen Much-Needed Little-Known Remarkable Σελίδες: 304 Διαστάσεις: 13 8X13 8Cm