The Secret of Easter Island

Author: Thor Heyerdahl
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: Surrounded by vast seas, the "center of the world" lies with giant stone statues, hiding rare treasures. Thor Heyerdahl takes you behind the mystery of Easter Island! Thor Heyerdahl, a contemporary outstanding anthropologist and maritime explorer born in Norway in 1914, has narrated a heroic epic more thrilling than Columbus and more magical than Magellan. He questioned the discovery of the Americas by Columbus; he challenged the spread patterns of Pacific maritime civilizations; he boldly outlined the maritime routes of Asian, African, and European civilizations thousands of years ago; he organized several world-shocking expeditions. His conclusions—shocking and revolutionary, shaking the academic world, and reshaping the history of human civilization. Thor Heyerdahl's important works—Kon-Tiki, The Secret of Easter Island, and The Raft of the Magellan—have sold 20 million copies worldwide. Translated into 67 languages, they have become the most travel and exploration classics in history. Among the most remote places on Earth, perhaps Easter Island is the most isolated. The island's inhabitants could see nothing but the moon at night and planets in the sky, along with nothing but endless seas, not even a hint of land. It is a mysterious place, and the outstanding anthropologist and maritime explorer Thor Heyerdahl will lead the adventurous among you to the center of that world, unveiling the mystery of Easter Island.
In the vast southeastern corner of the Pacific Ocean lies a beautiful island, the "center of the world"—Easter Island. The island's surface is scattered with giant stone statues, most weighing 4 to 5 tons, with the largest weighing up to 50 tons. Beneath the island's foundation lie numerous secret caves, preserving rare treasures such as oddly shaped miniature stone carvings. What artistic style do these carvings possess, and when did they originate? How could the islanders, in the era without machinery, have moved and erected these colossal structures? After enduring countless hardships, long-term observation, excavation, and research, even risking their lives to explore ancestral caves, the author finally revealed the secrets of Easter Island.