Easter Island
The centuries-old mysteries and haunting past of Easter Island become catalysts for the parallel quests of two young women, separated by sixty years of history--Elsa Pendleton, who travels to Easter Island with her anthropologist husband in 1913, and widowed American botanist Dr. Greer...
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The centuries-old mysteries and haunting past of Easter Island become catalysts for the parallel quests of two young women, separated by sixty years of history--Elsa Pendleton, who travels to Easter Island with her anthropologist husband in 1913, and widowed American botanist Dr. Greer Faraday--as they confront discoveries about themselves and the people they love. A first novel.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780385336734 (038533673X)
Publish date: May 27th 2003
Publisher: The Dial Press
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
ISBN: 0 316 86197 9Withdrawn from Oxfordshire Library Service.Dedication: For my parents and my brotherOpening: The decisive moment for Germany's fleet in the Great War was, indisputably, its ill-timed arrival at the Falkland Islands. Having avoided detection by the Allies for three months since th...
I just recently re-read this for a book group. I remembered liking it the first time I read it, but not much more about it. Now it's fresh in my head, I don't love it, but I don't dislike it either. It is well written, for the most part. Three intersecting stories compliment each other nicely and co...