The Voyage of Captain Don Felipe González to Easter Island, 1770-1: Preceded by an Extract from Mynheer Jacob Roggeveen's Official Log of His Discover

ISBN-13: 9781108078238 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 266 str.

Bolton Glanvill Corney

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In 1722, on Easter Sunday, Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen became the first European to visit the Polynesian island of Rapa Nui. He named it Easter Island. Decades later, concerned that the British intended to establish a Pacific base, the Spanish ordered an expedition to the South Pacific from Peru. Felipe Gonzalez de Ahedo (1702 92) landed on Easter Island in November 1770 and claimed it for the Spanish crown. These English translations of the first-hand accounts from these two expeditions were prepared by the antiquarian and bibliophile Bolton Corney (1784 1870) and published for the Hakluyt Society in 1908. The reports of the first European impressions of the enormous moai make clear their wonder at the mysterious monolithic statues, and their incredulity that the island inhabitants had the means to carve and move such structures. This illustrated work will be of interest to historians of early exploration in the Pacific."