Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island by Thor Heyerdahl
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Thor strikes me as the closest thing we have had to an Indiana Jones adventurer-scholar, like Harry Houdini strikes me as the closest thing to a superhero. These chronicles of exploring the truth behind mysterious Easter Island, or Rapa Nui meaning 'Great Rapa,' read as much like adventure as they do scholarship. Secret caves, superstition, and wizardry read with as much drama and tension as there is in enlightenment coming from the archaeology, rongo-rong, and top knots and burial spaces of the long-faced statues. As tantalizing and unfortunate in its brevity is the cursory treatment given to stops at Pitcairn Island and Rapa Iti. Plenty of color pictures and maps help out this book.
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