Stanley's Dream: The Medical Expedition to Easter Island (Carleton Library) by Jacalyn Duffin
English | August 30th, 2019 | ISBN: 0773557105 | 552 pages | EPUB | 140.53 MB
In 1964–65, an international team of thirty-eight scientists and assistants, led by Montreal physician Stanley Skoryna, sailed to the mysterious Rapa Nui (Easter Island) to conduct an unprecedented survey of its biosphere. Born of Cold War concerns about pollution, overpopulation, and conflict, and initially conceived as the first of two trips, the project was designed to document the island's status before a proposed airport would link the one thousand people living in humanity's remotest community to the rest of the world – its germs, genes, culture, and economy.