Aku-Aku : the secret of Easter Island / Thor Heyerdahl.
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)
Category
Books
Date
1958
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Mount Stewart, County Down
NT 3114795
Summary
Bibliographic description
367, [1] p., plates : ill. (chiefly col.), maps ; 21 cm. Provenance: twentieth-century armorial bookplate (dated 1922) with portrait: "Edith Helen Marchioness of Londonderry. D.B.E." [i.e. Edith Helen Chaplin, m. in 1899 Charles Viscount Castlereagh, 7th Marquess of Londonderry from 1915]. Motto in Scottish Gaelic over portrait ("Tha mo cridhe's an tir nam beann" [My heart is in the land of mountains]). Binding: red publisher's cloth, blind upper cover pictorial, silver lettered on spine.
Makers and roles
Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002)