The Weans
by Robert Nathan
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Nothing has so completely stirred the imagination of the entire civilized world as the recent discovery of a civilization, lost for more than 5,000 years, of the Weans of the Great West, or Salt, Continent. Now for the first time this fascinating story of the expeditions of Kenya's greatest scientists is told-in terms comprehensible to the general reader.Who were these Weans, whose eastern coast was guarded by a ferocious giantess, who worshipped (among others) a root deity and danced when show more the spirit came down, and whose final destruction and disappearance is shrouded in mystery?You will thrill-as who has not?-to the descriptions of the rich finds in the diggings at n. Yok, Bosstin, and Oleens, and the spectacular discoveries in the Valley of the Sun by the team of Sri. B'Han Bollek, Bes Nef and his wife, Sra. Bess Nebby, and Nat Obelgerst-Levy, here related by Robert Nathan, who was himself a member of one of the three triumphant expeditions generously underwritten by the Konegi Foundation and the archaeological departments of the universities of Kenya, Uganda, and Ruwenzori."This will be the big archaeological book of the century"-Nat Obelgerst-Levy, Archaeol. D., Ruwenzori University show lessTags
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Enjoyed this tongue in cheek look at the US from the perspective of Kenyan archeologists excavating a lost civilization in the very far distant future. This would be a useful social studies book - a view from outside. Preconceptions, etc.
After more than 40 years, this remains a delightful parody. Kenyan archaeologists try to make sense of artifacts left by a unknown people (the "We'ans," inhabitants of "Us") in sites such as M'lwawki, Bosstin, Cha'ago, and n.Yok.
Great fun!
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- Original publication date
- 1960
- People/Characters
- Sri. B'Han Bollek; Bes Nef; Sra. Bess Nebby; Nat Obelgerst-Levy
- Dedication
- To CLARA GRUNTAL,
who has always had the gift of laughter - First words
- Those of you who have followed the work of our archaeologists along the east and west coasts of the Great West, or Salt, Continent, and in the interior deserts, know that the Kenya and Uganda expeditions have recently discove... (show all)red traces of a lost people of prehistory among the mounds and tumuli of that unexplored waste.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)But as to the history of these almost unknown ancestors of ours, no more is known than is known of the Romans, and later, the Brythons: they established themselves in the land by killing off the native tribes already there, and built their empire by the sword; when the sword rusted, they perished, along with Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, leaving behind them only these curious mounds, some scrolls, Lib (or Libby), a few monuments and glyphs, some statues of eggs and mantises, and no music.
- Publisher's editor
- Laurence, Dan
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