Island at the Edge of the World - Pitts Mike

In the tradition of Hampton Sides and Simon Winchester comes a vital and timely work of historical adventure and reclamation by British archeological scholar Mike Pitts—a book that rewrites the popular yet flawed history of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and uses newly unearthed findings and documents to challenge the long-standing historical assumptions about the manmade ecological disaster that caused the islandÂ’s collapse.Rapa Nui, known to Western cultures as Easter Island for centuries, has long... Zobrazit více