EASTER ISLAND ARCHAEOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND CULTURE. Tapa dura - 1994

Hardback. Very Good.

British Museum Press. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

London: British Museum Press, 1994. First printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good +. Quarto, cloth in dust jacket, signed by Van Tilburg on the titlepage, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in very good+ dust jacket, ISBN sticker on rear panel, light edgewear to the dust jacket. With a Christmas card from the Van Tilburgs loosely inserted.

London : British Museum Press, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/Good. A4 (300 x 210mm approx.). Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting The endpapers have very faint browning, mainly on back endpapers. Edges all neat and clean Since Easter Island (Rapa Nui) was first contacted by the Dutchman Jacob Roggeveen nearly three centuries ago, the people, culture and, most of all, the monolithic statues of this remarkable island have been seen by Westerners as an incredible puzzle, a riddle with no solution. At the heart of the so-called mystery of the Easter Island stand the gigantic moai, the supreme sculptural achievement of the Rapa Nui people and, indeed, of all Polynesia. Re-erected upon their rectangular stone platforms, lying along ancient transport roads, hidden deep in seaside caves, or standing upon the slopes of Rano Raraku, where they were hewn from the living… Leer más

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.