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Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
by Heyerdahl, Thor
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Good
- Seller
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La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, Illinois: Rand McNally & Company, 1958. First American Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Continues the adventures of the author & his team in the Southeast Pacific Ocean begun in his 1950 account, "Kon Tiki," this time chronicling their journey to explore the mysteries of Easter Island. In 384 pages + 62 full-color photos throughout text, map endpapers. Orig. published in Norwegian in 1957, this is the First American Edition, First Printing, from 1958. 8bo has brown cloth-covered boards with an embossed tiki design to front cover , with deeper brown title box lettered in gilt to spine. Condition is VG+: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages creamy white & unmarked save for former owner's name in small pen to ffep. Foxing to top outside page edges & to the outer edges of a few photos. Mild rubbing to extremities & tiny circular faded mark to mid-fore edge side of front board. The price-clipped DJ is downgraded to only Good due to moderate edgewear all around, some short tears & chips, tape repair to head of spine inside, slight sticker pull to lower spine; nicely protected in new mylar cover Free (removed for photos). Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day.
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
- Gargoyle Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022485
- Title
- Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island
- Author
- Heyerdahl, Thor
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Rand McNally & Company
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Illinois
- Date Published
- 1958
- Keywords
- ADVENTURE TRAVEL RAFT JOURNEY PACIFIC OCEAN SOUTH SEAS EASTER ISLAND STATUES PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES ARCHAEOLOGY
- Bookseller catalogs
- Autobiography-Biography-Journals-Letters; Travel-Exploration-Adventure;
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