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A few paragraphs cannot explain this feat of humanity. How a society develops in one of the oldest deserts on earth.

Somewhere between the crashing waves against gravel shores and sand dunes, a civilization sprung. In lands with little to no rain and fog so dense one could not see their outstretched hand from their faces.

The reality was this queer and particular place of earth was altered and maintained with a meticulousness that left outsiders baffled for centuries.

In the diary of an early European explorer it was stated

[They] have adapted themselves to that bitter environment so that they laugh deeply and grow the fattest babies in the world

That assessment was true and the very first written accounts by outsiders spoke of a land of such wealth backdropped by desolation.

- Diamonds were so common they were ground for dust to ornamentate knives and tools.
-Sealskins were worn by every echelon of society also draping communal and private homes framed with whale bones.

It was these farmers, copper/bronze smiths and whalers that made this land great to a world who sought to show their inferiority.

This is the land of the Great Dryness and this is their story.
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