Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
by Heyerdahl, Thor
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- Hardcover
- Condition
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- Seller
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North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island, Heyerdahl, Thor. Published by Rand McNally & Company, Chicago, 1958. First Printing July 1958, Book of the Month. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 384pp, 62 color photos; maps. Tan cloth boards with blind-stamped illustration front; gilt spine labels on red panel, mapped endpapers in tri-colour. Light dusting to outer edges; lightly shaken and otherwise fine without markings, tears or folds. Unclipped dustjacket has ruffling and rubbing to edges.
Synopsis
Aku-Aku, the Secret of Easter Island is a 1958 book by Thor Heyerdahl that described his research at Rano Raraku and Anakena on the many giant stone statues or moai found on Easter Island and the culture that created them. The book and a follow-up film of the same name made a major contribution to general public awareness of both the island and the statues, outside the anthropological and archaeological communities.
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- Bookseller
- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3624
- Title
- Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
- Author
- Heyerdahl, Thor
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- ART, HISTORY AND POLITICS, ART; EXPLORATIONS;
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- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.