Easter Island
Island of Enigmas
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Publisher Description
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.”
Customer Reviews
Easter Island-Island of Enigmas
John dos Passos has written a most excellent and well researched book about a very little known place. Easter Island, full of enigmas, home to a monolithic society of unknown origins and a mysterious past is presented most expertly. In this book, he takes actual diary entries from several groups of sailors who anchored at Easter Island through the past couple hundred years, as well as a final chapter of his time spent there. This is an amazing book, full of pictures and historical data, and it’s fair share of forever standing enigmas.