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Easter Island: Island of Enigmas
Contributor(s): Dos Passos, John (Author)

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 ISBN: 0385513615     ISBN-13: 9780385513616
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
OUR PRICE: $14.25  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 1995
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Australia & New Zealand - General
- Social Science | Archaeology
- Travel | Australia & Oceania
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.72 lbs) 216 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Australian
 
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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."
 
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