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Easter Island
Ronald A. Reis
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Description for Easter Island
Provides information on the mysteries surrounding the history and significance of the statues on Easter Island. Series: Lost Worlds and Mysterious Civilizations. Num Pages: 116 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps. BIC Classification: HBJM; YQH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Easter Island is a true land of mystery. One of the most remotely inhabited places on Earth, this 64-square-mile speck in the South Pacific is more than 1,000 miles from anywhere else, yet Polynesian voyagers managed to settle Easter Island a thousand years ago. No one knows why the Moai, nearly a thousand megalithic volcanic statues, were carved, transported, and erected - or why they were all found facedown by European explorers. In addition, did a Stone Age population of less than 10,000 actually deforest the land, causing environmental devastation? There were as many as 16 million Chilean palms covering ... Read more
Easter Island is a true land of mystery. One of the most remotely inhabited places on Earth, this 64-square-mile speck in the South Pacific is more than 1,000 miles from anywhere else, yet Polynesian voyagers managed to settle Easter Island a thousand years ago. No one knows why the Moai, nearly a thousand megalithic volcanic statues, were carved, transported, and erected - or why they were all found facedown by European explorers. In addition, did a Stone Age population of less than 10,000 actually deforest the land, causing environmental devastation? There were as many as 16 million Chilean palms covering ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Facts On File Inc United States
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
Series
Lost Worlds and Mysterious Civilizations
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781604139723
SKU
V9781604139723
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99-3
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