Van Tilburg Jo Anne Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island 9780743244817

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Автор: Van Tilburg Jo Anne
Название: Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island
ISBN: 9780743244817
Издательство: Simon & Schuster
Классификация: ISBN-10: 0743244818
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.41 кг.
Дата издания: 14.06.2014
Язык: English
Размер: 224 x 150 x 33
Поставляется из: США
Описание: Katherine Routledge is a central figure in the history of Easter Island, one of the worlds most remote and mysterious locales. Born to a wealthy and prestigious English Quaker family in 1866, Katherine rebelled against their strict Victorian values, becoming one of the first female graduates of Oxford University and the first woman archaeologist to work in Polynesia.
At the age of forty, Katherine married a charismatic Australian adventurer, William Scoresby Routledge, and they built a ninety-foot, state-of-the-art yacht, christening her Mana, the Polynesian word for spiritual power. From 1913 to 1915, Katherine and Scoresby led the Mana Expedition to Easter Island, where Katherine conducted the first-ever excavations of the islands world-famous stone statues. Katherine collected vast quantities of new information, which she faithfully transcribed into her journals and field notebooks. Through interviews with dozens of elderly men and women, she was able to save the history of the island, whose population was struggling back from the brink of extinction. Without Katherines extraordinary efforts, Easter Islands traditional beliefs and customs would have been forever lost.
Katherines hard work came at a terrible price. A family history of schizophrenia and a deep sense of spiritualism brought her under the spell of an old mystic named Angata, who led an Easter Island rebellion in which Katherine played a central role. After her return to England, she heard voices that precipitated a separation from Scoresby and nearly destroyed her ability to write and to publish her fieldwork. Her family blamed Angata, the Easter Island witch doctor, for driving Katherine insane. With Scoresby, they kidnapped Katherine from her lavish London home and isolated her in an asylum, where she died seven years later.
Many of Katherines papers were thought to be lost until they were discovered by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the contemporary worlds leading authority on the Easter Island statues. In this compelling biography, Dr. Van Tilburg brings her unique expertise to Katherine Routledges discoveries and to her turbulent life. The result is an exciting personal story, set against the drama of Katherines remarkable exploration of one of the most intriguing archaeological sites in the world

Among Stone Giants: The Life of Katherine Routledge and Her Remarkable Expedition to Easter Island, Van Tilburg Jo Anne