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by Jo Anne Van Tilburg (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Scribner (22 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 074324480X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743244800
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16.3 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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Brian Fagan Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara Jo Anne Van Tilburg has written a stellar biography, based on thorough detective work and historical sleuthing, which puts Katherine Routledge's work in modern perspective....This de^nitive book will appeal to even the casual visitor.


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Katherine Routledge is a central figure in the history of Easter Island, one of the world's most remote and mysterious locales. Born to a wealthy and prestigious English Quaker family in 1866, Katherine rebelled against Victorian values, becoming one of the first female graduates of Oxford University and the first woman archaeologist to work in Polynesia. From 1913 to 1915, Katherine and her husband, Australian adventurer William Scoresby Routledge, led the Mana Expedition to Easter Island, where Katherine conducted the first ever excavations of the island's world-famous stone statues. Katherine collected vast quantities of new information, and through interviews with dozens of elderly men and women, she was able to save the history of the island, whose population was struggling back from the brink of extinction. Without Katherine's extraordinary efforts, Easter Island's traditional beliefs and customs would have been forever lost. Many of Katherine's papers were thought to be lost until they were discovered by Jo Anne Van Tilburg, the contemporary world's leading authority on the Easter Island statues. In this compelling biography, Dr.Van Tilburg brings her unique expertise to Katherine Routledge's discoveries and to her turbulent life. The result is an exciting personal story, set against the drama of Katherine's remarkable exploration of one of the most intriguing archaeological sites in the world.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best read of the year, 16 May 2003
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Right from the prologue to the end of this extraordinary book, I couldn't move from my chair. A most fantastic read, a wonderfully, gripping and superbly researched story, marvellously told by Dr Jo Anne van Tilburg.
It tells of a strong-willed north country English girl, Katherine Maria Pease born into a Quaker family in the second half of the 19th century, a 1st cousin twice removed from Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer, and defying the conventions of Victorian society, went up to Oxford where she obtained her degree(not awarded until much later), but being one of the earliest of her sex to do so.
Katherine(Pease) Routledge, the boss of her siblings, overturned the unwritten rules of 19th century society, supported the suffragettes, went to South Africa at the end of the 2nd Boer War,then met and afterwards married an anthropologist William Scoresby Rotledge. They designed and built a boat, and from England sailed the Atlantic and the Pacific to Easter Island, and for two years made a study of the island, its people and the extraordinary massive stone statues there. Katherine dabbled in the occult and claimed communication with her dead grandfather. Katherine's last years of her sometimes sad, turbulent, fighting life were spent at Ticehurst, an asylum in Sussex.
I was shamelessly diverted from doing anything else to savour this enthralling, often amusing, sometimes sad, but always entertaining story.Truly, a magnificent read.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A captivating exploration, 19 Jul 2003
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From the firm foundation of her earlier works on the archaeology of Easter Island and the history of the 1913-1915 Routledge expedition, Van Tilburg has launched successfully into biography. Van Tilburg has not focused myopically on her subject but places her within the broad, complex history of the island and its people. Katherine Routledge and the island are poretrayed with intimacy, insight and solid scholarship.

Arriving at Easter Island at a time when, as Van Tilburg points out, there were four times as many moai statues as islanders, Routledge was ideally placed to record the island at a critical moment. She talked to those who had lived through the slave raids, epidemics and missionization and who could recall the distant past. She carefully documented the material traces of the maoi and birdman religions. She also arranged to carry away a large quantity of those materials, many now in museum collections in Britain.

Written in a warm and engaging style and illustrated with photographs of Katherine's life and drawings from the expedition, this is a compelling story of a fascinating island and a strong, unusual woman.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best read of the year, 16 May 2003
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Right from the prologue to the end of this extraordinary book, I couldn't move from my chair. A most fantastic read, a wonderfully, gripping and superbly researched story, marvellously told by Dr Jo Anne van Tilburg.
It tells of a strong-willed north country English girl, Katherine Maria Pease born into a Quaker family in the second half of the 19th century, a 1st cousin twice removed from Elizabeth Fry, the prison reformer, and defying the conventions of Victorian society, went up to Oxford where she obtained her degree(not awarded until much later), but being one of the earliest of her sex to do so.
Katherine(Pease) Routledge, the boss of her siblings, overturned the unwritten rules of 19th century society, supported the suffragettes, went to South Africa at the end of the 2nd Boer War,then met and afterwards married an anthropologist William Scoresby Rotledge. They designed and built a boat, and from England sailed the Atlantic and the Pacific to Easter Island, and for two years made a study of the island, its people and the extraordinary massive stone statues there. Katherine dabbled in the occult and claimed communication with her dead grandfather. Katherine's last years of her sometimes sad, turbulent, fighting life were spent at Ticehurst, an asylum in Sussex.
I was shamelessly diverted from doing anything else to savour this enthralling, often amusing, sometimes sad, but always entertaining story.Truly, a magnificent read.
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