Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island

by Steven Roger Fischer

Book Overview

On a long stretch of green coast in the South Pacific, hundreds of enormous, impassive stone heads stand guard against the ravages of time, war, and disease that have attempted over the centuries to conquer Easter Island. Steven Roger Fischer offers the first English-language history of Easter Island in Island at the End of the World, a fascinating chronicle of adversity, triumph, and the enduring monumentality of the island's stone guards...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1861892454
• ISBN13: 9781861892454
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.0"