Easter island remains one of the most mysterious places in the world. This onepage guide includes a plot summary and brief analysis of easter island by jennifer vanderbes. Elsa beazley arrives at easter island in 1916 with her new husband and her mentally handicapped sister. She learned the rapanui language and interviewed all the old people she could find who still remembered the past. While at yale, she began writing for the yale daily news and was featured on cbs evening news for her investigation into a suspicious egg donor agency that was then closed down due to her reporting. The mysteries of easter island the mysteries of easter island. After we booked our tickets to easter island, i searched tripadvisor for the best easter island book or travel guide. Vacation rentals in easter island, chile tripadvisor.
Score a books total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Reading guide for easter island by jennifer vanderbes. Jennifer vanderbes has several stories going on at once in her 2003 novel easter island. I felt betrayed by the characters i encountered and came to enjoy throughout the book that left me flat and saying is that is. In 1995, science writer jared diamond popularized the collapse theory in a discover magazine. View tripadvisors 624 photos and great deals on 26 vacation rentals, cabins and villas in easter island, chile. A companion to easter island guide to rapa nui james grant peterkin on.
The inquiry into many mysteries surrounding easter island is extremely fascinating and thoroughly researched. It provided them with all of their needs, food, shelter, tools, and even the ability to create great works of art. The marriage enables her to fulfil her great dream. Well shot footage of easter island especially interesting because it shows some of the landforms which suggest to some geologists that a massive tidal wave or several 150 200 feet high swept this island at one time, estimated to have occurred about 15002000 years ago and it looks to some like part of the island sunk in the process. Here you can learn about the easter island statues and. Its 14 miles long and 7 miles across, at its widest, and there is a dormant volcano at each corner. Easter island is the story of two women who went to the island and did research. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. A thorough read of this always complex and sometimes dissatisfying book reveals that vanderbes chose that title carefully.
Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Although elsa, a young englishwoman, loves a german man she has met, he has inconveniently returned to germany and she doesnt know when, or even if, she will see him again. First published in 1919, this work provides information on that most mysterious of islands easter island rapa nui. About half of the inhabitants are of polynesian stock. Apr 29, 2020 browse and book from the best vacation rentals with prices in easter island. An artists journey to the mysterious land of giant stone statues sausalitopress, 2014. Easter island went nowhere by nbaker see profile 102611. Weaving together a pair of remarkable stories, debut novelist jennifer vanderbes explores the realms of love and anger, trust and betrayal, through the eyes of two exceptional young women living nearly a century apart who journey to the most remote island in the world easter island. Episode 28 features a reading by phil klay, author of the story collection redeployment. For decades, scientists have studied this remote island in the south pacific and its hundreds of giant stone statues known as moai.
In the book, routledge and her companions explore the secret caves, ancient roads, pyramid platforms. Family conflict, fascinating social commentary, and a riveting plot converge in jennifer vanderbes stunning strangers at the feast, a thriller that also raises large and haunting questions about the meaning of guilt, innocence, and justice. Scientific issues are discussed in a compelling way that makes the reader understand and enjoy each new revelation, almost like a mystery being solved on c. I have already ordered both another book by vanderbes and the mystery of easter island, if that tells you how happy this book made me. Easter island is a 2003 historical novel by jennifer vanderbes. Books about the island tend to fall into two categories. Of volcanic origin, easter island is mostly covered with grasslands and is swept by strong trade winds. List of books and articles about easter island online.
Easter island has always interested me so ive read a lot of nonfiction books about it. Slowly unearthing the island s haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever. The mystery of easter island was originally published in 1919, based upon the research of an english lady, katherine routledge, who lived on the island in 191415. Set in both 19 and sometime near the end of the twentieth century, it follows two women, one from each time period, who travel to easter island with different prospects. Set on the cusp of world war one, and in the 1970s, easter island tells the passionate, heartbreaking and ultimately redemptive story of two remarkable women. This small isolated land is 2,000 miles from the south american mainland and its administered by chile.
Mar 17, 2018 easter islands demise is a lesson for the world. Elsa pendleton travels from england to easter island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the royal geographical society to study the colossal moai statues, and her younger sister. Both women are curious and intelligent, and both experience betrayal and loss as well as true friendship and love. This guidebook includes the islands history, culture and all of its significant archaeological sites.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read easter island. The tuesday evening bhpl book group will discuss easter island by jennifer vanderbes tomorrow at 7. With its implausibly huge sculptures and indecipherable tablets, easter island remains an enigma. Across the pacific in a raft by thor heyerdahl 22 times the statues that walked. May 17, 2003 easter island by jennifer vanderbes little, brown. Unfortunately, its not easy to find this book at a budget price. Geologically one of the youngest inhabited territories on earth, easter island, located in the midpacific ocean, was, for most of its history, one of the most isolated its inhabitants, the rapa nui, have endured famines, epidemics of disease and cannibalism, civil war, environmental collapse, slave raids, various colonial contacts, and have seen their population crash on more than one occasi. Nov 03, 2014 perhaps due to its remote location, rapanui easter island is not well catered for when it comes to guides books travel guides. Easter island by jennifer vanderbes nook book ebook. Easter island was once a haven for its inhabitants.
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading of jennifer vanderbes easter island. Jun 01, 2004 weaving together a pair of remarkable stories, debut novelist jennifer vanderbes explores the realms of love and anger, trust and betrayal, through the eyes of two exceptional young women living nearly a century apart who journey to the most remote island in the world easter island. We all know that the easter island heads have bodies thats not a mystery at all. Jennifer vanderbes is the author of the acclaimed novels easter island, strangers at the feast and, most. Easter island books 101 books goodreads share book. An artists journey to the mysterious land of giant stone statues sausalito press, 2014.
Published to international acclaim, jennifer vanderbess first book, easter island, was hailed as one of those rare novels that. Easter island by jennifer vanderbes 40 times kontiki. A story about two journeys of transformation, forgiveness, and, ultimately, redemption, easter island is a powerful debut and a wonderfully intriguing book to discuss. I knew that it was the most remote inhabited island in the world, and i knew. Book your tickets online for rapa nui national park, easter island.
The complete guide by shawn mclaughlin was highly recommended by everyone. Easter island a washington post and christian science monitor best book of the year a rich and worldly first novel. The statues, or moai, were built over hundreds of years by easter islanders themselves. She recreates the trip of a lifetime for readers with vivid, remarkable images and insightful, informative captions to compliment the beautiful watercolors. Scientists and historians have since solved the mystery. The natives were entirely indifferent whether they worked or not, but by paying high wages and giving any quantity of mutton, we were able at this time to get a certain amount of precarious labour for digging and camp work. I havent read something this moving in a while, and i even feel i learned a fair bit about botany and easter island. Book clubs at book passage, put together this interview with jennifer vanderbes. Easter island a novel epub jennifer vanderbes achat. The lonely planet, rough guide or travel guides along those lines tend to only cover easter island in a fairly small section in part of a larger volume concerned with chile or south america.
Introduction in the middle of the south pacific, several thousand kilometers west of the coast of chile, is the most isolated inhabited piece of land on earth. The giant stone statues in polynesias easter island may have just been walked out of quarry, according to a controversial new theory on how the monolithic human figures were transported. Easter island is most famous for its nearly 1,000 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early rapa nui people. Easter island by jennifer vanderbes overdrive rakuten. The essential guidebook to this mysterious and enigmatic island, and the only book about easter island written by someone who actually lives here. Join facebook to connect with jennifer easter and others you may know. My selfguided tour plan leads me to another question. This is the first novel ive seen about this island of mystery. Strangers at the feast family conflict, fascinating social commentary, and a riveting plot converge in jennifer vanderbes stunning strangers at the feast, a thriller that also raises large and haunting questions about the meaning of guilt, innocence, and justice.
Just click the button below to subscribe and download your free childrens book, the true meaning of easter. My children are adults but our book club was really important to us. Restrained passion and conflicted loyalties drive this sweeping debut novel, in which two women of different eras experience the mysteries of easter island. The debut novel of jennifer vanderbes, easter island is a tale of two women from two different eras, both of who move to easter island to find refuge from their pasts. It details routledges journey by yacht from england to south america, around patagonia to chile and on to easter island, giving an account of its life, history and folklore. Join two intrepid young women as they delve into the centuriesold mysteries of easter island. Opinion a parable of selfdestruction the new york times. Jennifer vanderbes easter island is the mysterious backdrop that connects the lives of two remarkable women. Im so glad i decided to read it because its just a great book full of interesting information, some of which id never come across before, and such a lovely double story. I bought a used copy of the first edition and cant recommend it enough. Elsa, an edwardian englishwoman, is forced by circumstance to leave the man she loves and agree to a marriage of convenience. It was given this name by the dutch com mander jacob roggeveen, who first. Easter island guide book easter island visitor information.
Easter island by jennifer vanderbes 2004 0601 jennifer vanderbes on. When my high school senior said that he wanted in, i. Publication date 2003 topics women, british, americans, anthropologists spouses, women botanists publisher new york. Easter island by jennifer vanderbes reading guidebook. Slightly out of tune by idir aitsahalia easter island by jennifer vanderbes. In 2003, her debut novel easter island dial press was named one of the best books of the year by the christian science monitor and the washington post. Easter island, also known as rapa nui, is a 63squaremile spot of land in the pacific ocean. Weaving together a pair of remarkable stories, debut novelist jennifer vanderbes explores the realms of love and anger, trust and betrayal, through the eyes of two exceptional young women living nearly a century apart who journey to the most remote island in the worldeaster island. One is an edwardian englishwoman, the other is a woman of the 1970s. She was a mccreight fellow in fiction at the university of. Free easter book for children happy and blessed home. Easter island ebook by jennifer vanderbes rakuten kobo. Why did you pick easter island as the backdrop for your story.
They abused this eden, and turned it into a disaster, with almost no natural resources. Dec 15, 2014 a companion to easter island guide to rapa nui james grant peterkin on. Easter island is a remote, triangularshaped, treeless, island in the pacific. I printed our copy of the true meaning of easter book on heavy white card stock and laminated it. Scientists finally discovered the truth about easter island. Strangers at the feast book by jennifer vanderbes official.
A recent trip to easter island inspired her newest book. Apr 10, 2019 download your free easter book for children. Jennifer vanderbes is an american novelist, journalist and screenwriter. We set to work to excavate some of the statues which stood on the slope of the raraku mountain. Best books on easter island easter island forum tripadvisor. Informational nonfiction, 585 words, level m grade 2, lexile 690l. The immediate fate of liberal capitalism, which plunges into a free fall towards the implosion of a black hole boosted by the constant growth of a systemic crisis and that is inevitably attracted by the sucking maelstrom of an ominous global collapse, shows fascinating similarities with the sudden extinction of the moai culture that took place in easter island. Jun 03, 2003 in parallel narratives, vanderbes describes the movements of a german naval fleet pursued by british warships, which anchored off and perhaps visited easter islandand also the 1973 journey of dr. Greer faraday, whose mission is to study the islands ecosystem in hopes of determining how plant life came to a seemingly barren island. There is also a small thread of a german world war i naval squadron present in the book.
Weaving together a pair of remarkable stories, debut novelist jennifer vanderbes explores the realms of love and anger, trust and betrayal. Elsa pendleton travels from england to easter island with her husband, an anthropologist sent by the royal geographical society to study the colossal moai. Easter island books tagged easter island librarything. About easter island in this extraordinary fiction debutrich with love and betrayal, history and intellectual passiontwo remarkable narratives converge on easter island, one of the most remote places. I had read easter island in our family book club we take turns choosing a book, read it together and then talk about it over dinner. Vanderbes s first novel won critical acclaim and was selected best book of the year in 2003 by the washington post. But how did the easter island population build hundreds of statues. Im particularly interested in books that will give me the sort of info id get if i went on a guided tour. Vanderbes novel, easter island, was a recent selection of the book passage first editions club.
Slowly unearthing the islands haunting past, they are forced to confront turbulent discoveries about themselves and the people they love, changing their lives forever. Jennifer vanderbes mixes two love stories with a good helping of myth in her debut novel, easter island. Strangers at the feast by jennifer vanderbes on thanksgiving day 2007, as the. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Download your childrens book the true meaning of easter.
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