Rediscovering Easter Island / Kathy Pelta.

Author/creator Pelta, Kathy
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : Lerner Publications, ©2001.
Description112 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm.
Subjects

SeriesHow history is invented
How history is invented. ^A567664
Contents First visitors: 1722-1771 -- Spreading the word: 1774-1797 -- World moves in: 1805-1864 -- Missionaries and others: 1864-1872 -- Early rediscoverers: 1882-1886 -- Search continues: 1914-1935 -- Methods old and new: 1935-1975 -- Filling in the gaps -- Historians and prehistorians.
Abstract Discusses the many visits made by explorers, missionaries, businessmen, scientists, and others to Easter Island since the late 1600s and what they revealed about life on this remote Pacific island.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 104-108) and index.
LCCN 00009163
ISBN0822548909 (library binding : alk. paper)

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