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Motel of the Mysteries

Motel of the Mysteries

by David Macaulay
Paperback
Age range: 10 to null Publication Date: 11/10/1979

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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.

ISBN:
9780395284254
9780395284254
Category:
Humour
Age range:
10 to null
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
11-10-1979
Language:
English
Publisher:
HarperCollins Publishers
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
279.4x211.07x31.75mm
Weight:
0.37kg
David Macaulay

British-American artist David Macaulay is an award-winning author and illustrator whose books have sold millions of copies in the United States alone.

He has won numerous awards including the Caldecott Medal and Honor Awards, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Christopher Award, an American Institute of Architects Medal, and the Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. In 2006 he received a MacArthur Fellowship. His work is renowned for its humour, detail, and ability to explain complex ideas with simple genius.

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