In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone

"This is Jared Diamond's haunting account of visiting the mysterious stone statues of Easter Island, showing how a remote civilisation destroyed itself by explo

Jan J. Boersema reconstructs the ecological and cultural history of Easter Island and critiques the hitherto accepted theory of its collapse.

In Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island, award-winning poet Lenore Weiss embodies the themes of loss, transformation and re-invention that are integral t

Mr and Mrs Smitt lived on a small island - just them, a cat, a dog, some birds and a tree. But one day Mr Smitt cut the tree down and nothing was ever the same