Motel of the Mysteries - Softcover

Macaulay, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0395284252 ISBN 13: 9780395284254

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin (Trade), 1979

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Book by Macaulay David

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"David Macaulay . . . is a superb craftsman and an imaginative writer and illustrator . . . His new book is a marvel of imagination and a comfortable satire. He projects a time when our civilization will have been buried . . . As always with Mr. Macaulay's books, wonderfully illustrated." The New York Times

Reseña del editor:

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin (Trade)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0395284252
• ISBN 13: 9780395284254
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 95