Among stone giants : the life of Katherine Routledge and her remarkable expedition to Easter Island
| 1. Verfasser: |
Van Tilburg, JoAnne
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Scribner,
2003.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xvi, 351 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., 1 map ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 074324480X 978-0-7432-4481-7 |
| Schlagworte: | |
| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Isla de Pascua |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Foreword
- A note on spelling and pronunciation
- Prologue
- pt. 1]. Before Easter Island : setting sail
- Ancestor worship : Southend, 1866
- "a terrible blank," 1872
- Waiting for change : Woodside, 1872
- Escape : Oxford and South Africa
- Scoresby : "a true British barbarian," 1904
- British East Africa : love, sex, and empire, 1906
- [pt. 2]. Easter Island
- Mana, 1910
- The Mana Expedition : sailors, scientists, and spies
- Atlantic to the Pacific : an "archaeological fiasco"
- Toward Easter Island : ecology and history at sea
- "Easter Island at last!"
- First impressions and plans
- Orongo : the eleventh hour
- Troubled waters
- "Katarina" and the Prophetess Angata
- Camp Hotu Iti : living faces
- A Spy story
- Legacy
- [pt. 3]. After Eastern Island : adrift
- Voyage home
- The story of an expedition, 1916-20
- Links, sidetracks, and dead ends, 1921-25
- Spooks and voices
- Cyprus, 1961
- Epilogue
- Afterword
- Notes
- Selected bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- Index.
