Katherine Routledge and her husband built a schooner, the Mana, and sailed from England via Brazil, Patagonia and Chile to Easter Island. The first part recounts the voyage; the second describes more than a year on the island, surveying the stone images and their quarries and recording what islanders remembered of the old ways.
A pioneering expedition account by a woman archaeologist, still cited by students of Rapa Nui. Download the free EPUB.