{"product_id":"2026200013672-secondhand-aku-aku-the-secret-of-easter-island","title":"Aku-Aku: The Secret Of Easter Island","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: N\/A\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the remote reaches of the Pacific Ocean, on the world's most isolated inhabited island, Norwegian explorer and anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl mounted one of the twentieth century's most audacious archaeological expeditions — and what he uncovered would challenge everything science thought it knew about Easter Island. Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island chronicles Heyerdahl's 1955–56 Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island (Rapa Nui), where he and his team investigated the origins of the island's iconic stone colossi, the moai, and worked to unlock the mysteries of a civilisation that had long defied explanation. With characteristic verve, Heyerdahl details his negotiations with the island's inhabitants, the dramatic excavations of buried statues, and the astonishing moment when islanders revealed the secret of the aku-aku — the ancestral spirits — and led him to hidden caves containing priceless artefacts never before seen by outsiders.\n\nWritten with the propulsive energy of a thriller and the meticulous eye of a scientist, this account argues compellingly that Easter Island's culture bears the marks of contact with pre-Columbian South America, a thesis as controversial today as when it was first published. Heyerdahl's prose is vivid and immediate, drawing the reader into a world of ancient ceremony, jealously guarded tribal secrets, and stone giants that still refuse to surrender all their answers — leaving one to wonder what other secrets the island's volcanic soil has yet to yield.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49160933605595,"sku":"2026200013672-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/d846484d-7cf7-480e-bdc1-bf24fe755e9c.png?v=1787188439","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200013672-secondhand-aku-aku-the-secret-of-easter-island","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}