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20 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT EASTER ISLAND / ELEANOR BRADSHAW ; Editor: Rachael Morlock ; Book Design: Tanya Dellaccio Keeney

By: Contributor(s): Series: Did you know? Wonders of the worldPublisher: Buffalo, NY : PowerKids Press, [2025]Copyright date: ©2025Description: 32 pages : colour photographs ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781499445299
Other title:
  • Twenty things you didn't know about Easter Island
  • Easter Island
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 23 996.18
Contents:
Island of questions -- Out at sea -- A volcanic island -- Island weather -- Palm tree problems -- Native species -- Who were the Rapanui? -- Mysterious Moai -- Moving the Moai -- Ahus and Moais -- A time of change -- Overcoming challenges -- Wonders and mysteries.
Summary: Few sights are more mysterious than the enormous carved heads of Easter Island. These stone sculptures were created by ancient people whose accomplishments still puzzle us today. How did the original islanders reach the island? What do the stone moai signify? How were they constructed? What caused the collapse of this civilization? Readers are invited to consider these questions and possible answers. Full-color photographs and 20 exciting facts bring this remote wonder of the world into focus for young readers
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Island of questions -- Out at sea -- A volcanic island -- Island weather -- Palm tree problems -- Native species -- Who were the Rapanui? -- Mysterious Moai -- Moving the Moai -- Ahus and Moais -- A time of change -- Overcoming challenges -- Wonders and mysteries.

Few sights are more mysterious than the enormous carved heads of Easter Island. These stone sculptures were created by ancient people whose accomplishments still puzzle us today. How did the original islanders reach the island? What do the stone moai signify? How were they constructed? What caused the collapse of this civilization? Readers are invited to consider these questions and possible answers. Full-color photographs and 20 exciting facts bring this remote wonder of the world into focus for young readers

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