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. ...
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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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Very Good in Good jacket. CY4-A 13th printing hardcover book SIGNED by David Macaulay on the page after the front free endpaper in very good condition in good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease, scrapes and small tears on the edges, corners, and some sides, scattered scratches. rubbing, and scuffing, light tanning and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, staple hole on the upper right corner of the first couple of pages, light tanning and shelf wear. 11.25"x8.75", 95 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. David Macaulay is a British-born American illustrator and writer. His works include Cathedral (1973), The Way Things Work (1988), and its updated revisions The New Way Things Work (1998) and The Way Things Work Now (2016). His illustrations have been featured in nonfiction books combining text and illustrations explaining architecture, design, and engineering, and he has written a number of children's fiction books. In 2006, Macaulay was a recipient of a MacArthur Fellows Program award and received the Caldecott Medal in 1991 for his book Black and White, published in 1990.
One year, I bought a copy for everyone in my department (eight people).
bowlofflowers
Jan 19, 2009
Great Find
Just as much fun as I remembered it to be. This was written in the 1980's in the style fo finding Tut's Tomb. Imagine being decades away from the 1985 disaster that coated the USA in dirt and sand then excavating a Motel and all it's artifacts.