Title: The Mana Of The Moai
Description: chapbook, special edition of Spanner poetry journal (UK)(2004), (editor/publisher Allen Fisher)

poetry and prose. cover is part of a postcard sent to William Sherman by Thor Heyerdahl relating to the undeciphered Rongorongo writing of Rapa Nui (Easter Island), and the back cover is a Rongorongo board featuring Stars of David, which may support Heyerdahl's thesis that some initial settlement of the island was from Egypt.
Subjects: poetry and prose, part of a longer unpublished work on Rapa Nui, bibiliography of William Sherman's published writings of the Pacific.
Places: Rapa Nui, Moorea (small island near Tahiti) where the author often visited and lived for a time in the 1990's, see also www.torriano.org.
People: Rapa Nui (Easter Island)....speculations, stolen Moai (in British Museum), romance and nostalgia, Polynesia
Time periods: end of 20th century