Rapa Nui - Soumrak zapomenutého ostrova – Duffack J. J. (2012)

Easter Island is associated with many adjectives: the most remote, the most mysterious, the most enigmatic, the most distant. This is true. However, it is also true that its history remains an inadequately assembled mosaic of individual events that do not complement each other very truthfully, causing historians no small amount of trouble in their deciphering. Our knowledge of this lost piece of the world in the endless Pacific is conditioned by ignorance. This is quite understandable, considering that the island itself was only discovered in 1722. What’s worse, we have known the overall picture of Pacific culture for just over four hundred years. The author of the book did not allow himself to be 'seduced' by the beauties of traditional historiography and embarked on a journey of discovering the new. The uniqueness of his perspective on the history of Rapa Nui lies in the unconventionality with which he tackled the difficult problem and the courage with which he opened the issue of the existence of the remnants of megalithic culture in the Pacific. The book documents and uncovers the forgotten creative mastery of our ancient ancestors; it is a detailed factual account and a read from which you will not be able to detach.