*Comprehensively covers the entire history of Easter Island, including how the first settlers got there.
*Explains the theories and mysteries behind the famous megalith statues found across Easter Island.
*Includes pictures of Easter Island, its famous statues, and other important people and places.
*Includes a bibliography for further reading.
*Includes a table of contents.
“[R]emarkable, tall, stone figures, a good 30 feet in height." – A description of the Moai made by Dutch navigator Jacob Roggeveen in 1722.
Far out in the south-eastern part of the Pacific Ocean lies one of the world’s most remote islands. Located over 2,000 miles away from Chile and South America, the nearest continent, and over 1,300 miles away from its nearest inhabited neighbour, Pitcairn Island, Easter Island is a solitary mass of land alone at the southeastern–most point of the Polynesian Triangle. And yet this small patch of land, a mere dot within the vast Pacific Ocean, is one of the most famous islands in the world.