Foreword
A note on spelling and pronunciation
Prologue
pt. 1]. Before Easter Island : setting sail
Ancestor worship : Southend, 1866
"a terrible blank," 1872
Waiting for change : Woodside, 1872
Escape : Oxford and South Africa
Scoresby : "a true British barbarian," 1904
British East Africa : love, sex, and empire, 1906
[pt. 2]. Easter Island
Mana, 1910
The Mana Expedition : sailors, scientists, and spies
Atlantic to the Pacific : an "archaeological fiasco"
Toward Easter Island : ecology and history at sea
"Easter Island at last!"
First impressions and plans
Orongo : the eleventh hour
Troubled waters
"Katarina" and the Prophetess Angata
Camp Hotu Iti : living faces
A Spy story
Legacy
[pt. 3]. After Eastern Island : adrift
Voyage home
The story of an expedition, 1916-20
Links, sidetracks, and dead ends, 1921-25
Spooks and voices
Cyprus, 1961
Epilogue
Afterword
Notes
Selected bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index.