3 reviews for:

Island at the End of the World: The Turbulent History of Easter Island

Steven Roger Fischer

2.82 AVERAGE

iritareads's review against another edition

tense slow-paced

iritareads's review against another edition

0.75

slow-paced

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shitty book with a very belittling , colonial, white supremacist perspective on the issues of the island and our people. often times just straight up misinformation, opinion based “facts” and colonial propaganda. focused way too much on unnecessary details instead of the people. just overall very patronizing and dehumanizing tone. do NOT recommend. not 0/5 bcs it still laid a good timeline of history which you gotta know how to read with a filter to ignore the unnecessary stuff.
if i ever mee the author it’s on sight.

harvio's review against another edition

5.0

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- first settled by Polynesians around 700 A.D., the island's population topped 12,000 in the early 1700's and then fell to only 111 in 1866.
- deforestation is addressed
- 'the great death'
- tribal violence
- smallpox
- slave-hunters
- and those breath-taking monumental sculptures
- top-secret U.S. Satellite Tracking Station was hidden there
- tourism: 1967 - 444 tourists
1991 - 2,000 tourists
2001 - 20,000 tourists
- the most comprehensive history of the island that I have ever read (and I've read a few)