Nick Thorpe

Nick Thorpe is an award-winning journalist & author of three travel memoirs. He is writing a novel based on Easter Island, which he first visited in a 2,500-mile voyage on a reed boat.

Written by Nick Thorpe

The Moai statues on Easter Island on grassy hillsides under a partly cloudy blue sky with distant mountains visible.

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Rituals and celebrations

The love of stuff

The problem with our society is not that it values material things too much but that it doesn’t value them enough

Nick Thorpe