The Tale of the Saejenjou - Book 1 The Great Desert
Dodd, Jr Robert For thousands of years while the rest of mankind slept in barbarism and ignorance, they refined the arts of civilization. They are the Sarithans, the most advanced and cultured race in the world. When barbarous stone-age tribes washed up on their shores, the Sarithans taught them how to read and write, taught them their calendar and the days of the year, and taught them mathematics and agriculture. These barbarians repaid them with war.
Now...