| Easter Island: Island of Enigmas Contributor(s): Dos Passos, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385513615 ISBN-13: 9780385513616 Publisher: Doubleday Books OUR PRICE: $14.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Australia & New Zealand - General - Social Science | Archaeology - Travel | Australia & Oceania |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" (0.72 lbs) 216 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Australian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Despite sickness in the final years of his life, Dos Passos presses on for adventure. He and his wife journey to Easter Island, where they explore the history behind the famous statues--called maois. "When I was a small boy," Dos Passos says, "some kind person took me to the British Museum. There I saw a statue, a huge, rough, dark-gray statue with a] long, sad, dark-gray face. The statue stared back out of deep, sunken eyes. What was it trying to say? To this day I can remember the feeling it gave me of savage, brooding melancholy." |