Die Schulhauser Und Schultische Auf Der Wiener Weltausstellung (1873)

In this vision of Earth as it might have beenathis allotropic formathree fifths of the world is largely uncharted, little understood, and believed to be composed entirely of sand, not ocean, and little outside the Great Barrier Ringathe 6,000-mile-long ring of mountains that encircles and largely protects the Plains from the great void of the Frontier beyondais known or even desired to be known and is home to the two species of sentient beings, humans and Agrarians. But the titanic mountain barrier that protects the Plains cannot hold at bay the pawl of doom from the unexplainable phenomenon known as global warming, a nearly 100-year-long drought that has seen the Great Lakeathe principal source of waterashrink at such an alarming rate that an ambitious and dangerous mission outside the Great Barrier Ring aboard the gigantic Global Explorerathe wheeled military carrierais seen as the only hope for survival.