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Rapa Nui

Everywhere is the wind of heaven; around and above all are boundless sea and sky, infinite space and a great silence.

Katherine Routledge The Mystery of Easter Island (1919)

A South Pacific island of Chile

Thor Heyerdahl’s The Art of Easter Island, bound in oatmeal linen with a carved Rapa Nui head printed in brown on the cover.

For your coffee table

The Art of Easter Island

Doubleday

Thor Heyerdahl did more than anyone to bring Rapa Nui to the world. His survey of the island’s art is the one to own, even second-hand.

Cloth hardcover · 336 pages of photographs, 16 in colour

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The book open at its endpapers, a two-page ochre and blue map of Easter Island marking Rano Raraku, Anakena, Orongo and Hanga Roa.

Some of my Instagram posts from Rapa Nui

Olga looking across a palm-lined shore towards the moai of Ahu Nau-Nau on Easter Island.Olga before the moai of Ahu Tongariki at sunrise on Rapa Nui.Olga in a red dress before the moai of Ahu Tongariki at sunrise.