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They said it couldn't be done. Well it has been done, proving them wrong once again.
After many years of research, cunningly contrived in as many minutes, the Discworld has
its map. It takes full account of the historic and much documented expeditions of the
Discworld's fêted (or at least fated) explorers: General Sir Roderick Purdeigh, Lars
Larsnephew, Llamedos Jones, Lady Alice Venturi, Ponce da Quirm and of course Venter
Borass.
Now travellers on this circular world can see it all: from Klatch to the Ramtops, from
Cori Celesti to the Circle Sea, from Genua to Bhangbhangduc. The great cities of Hunghung,
Pseudopolis, Al Khali and of course, Ankh-Morpork are placed with loving care upon this
world which is carried through space by Great A'Tuin.
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The Streets of Ankh-Morpork
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Being a concise and possibly even accurate MAPP of the Greatest City of the DISCWORLD
Including Unseen University and environs!
Also finest assortment of avenues, lanes, squares, and alleys for your walking pleasure.
"There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead
away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people walk along them the wrong way." -- from
Moving Pictures
Ankh-Morpork! City of One Thousand Surprises (according to the famous publication by the
Guild of Merchants)! All human life is there! Although, if it walks down the wrong alley,
often quite briefly.
The city celebrated in the bestselling Discworld series by Terry Pratchett has been
meticulously mapped for the first time. It's all here -- from Unseen University to the
Shades, from major landmarks like the Patrician's Palace to little-known, er, nooks like
Dwarf Bread Museum in Whirligig Alley. See the famous streets along which so many heroes
have walked, in some cases quite hurriedly!
As leading Ankh-Morpork entrepeneur C.M.O.T. Dibbler would say: A snip at any price -- and
that's cutting our own throat.
Well, close.
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Not only an artistic and breathtaking view of Lancre but also an interesting and informative guide to one of the Discworld's more, er, picturesque kingdoms.
Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live there. Lancre could hardly be ordinary, could it?
Magic glues the Discworld together and a lot of it ends up in Lancre, principal Kingdom of the Ramtop Mountains. Between Überwald and Whale Bay, the Octarine Grass Country and the Widdershins Ocean lies the most exciting and dangerous terrain in all Discworld. The Ramtops supply Discworld with most of its witches and wizards. The leaves on the trees in the Ramtops move even when there is no breeze. Rocks go for a stroll in the evening. Even the land, at times, seems alive.
The mapp may only be two-dimensional, but watch it very carefully and you might see it
jostle about a bit.
From the back of "A Tourist Guide to Lancre"
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Death's Domain
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Death's Domain -- it's no more than a breath away.....
The house and grounds belonging to the Death of Discworld have no precise location in time and space because these are things that, from Death's point of view, happen to other people.
His property has been modelled piecemeal on things he's seen. Death cannot create, but he is extemely adept at reproducing real things.
Paul Kidby, too, has repeatedly shown us that he is extremely adept at turning Terry Pratchett's words into pictures.
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Nanny Ogg's Cookbook
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Memo from Thos. Cropper
To: J H C Goatberger, publisher
We have received another manuscript from Mrs. Ogg.
Memo from J H C Goatberger
To: Thos. Cropper, overseer
Absolutely not. Remember what happened after we printed 'The Joye of Snacks'? I've never felt the same about puddings since then. My wife giggles now if someone even so much as mentions custard, which I can assure you is a little disconcerting after thirty years of marriage.
But needs must when the devil (in the shape of a cash-flow problem) drives, so Nanny Ogg's manuscript (a sort of G-rated version of 'The Joye of Snacks') was eventually published.
Nanny Ogg's Cookbook...Including Recipes, Items of Antiquarian Lore, Improving Observations of Life, Good Advice for Young People on the Threshold of the Adventure That is Marriage, Notes on Etiquette & Many Other Helpful Observations that will Not Offend the Most Delicate Sensibilities.
...and profusely illustrated throughout by the talented Paul Kidby.
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The Pratchett Portfolio
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We all know that the people of Discworld are real -- but what do they actually look like?
The "Pratchett Portfolio" answers that question. Here are all the usual suspects brilliantly captured, warts (except, to her dismay, in the case of Granny Weatherwax) and all, by the talents of Paul Kidby, in colour and black-and-white.
They are all here, from a marvellous full-colour depiction of the UU faculty, to a black-and-white characteristic study of Rincewind turning around and disappearing into the distance at a rate of knots, to a picture of the Iconograph-imp taking a well-earned cigarette break (he still seems to have some pink left, so it must have been before Rincewind took Twoflower to view Ankh-Morpork's red-lantern district).
This large (29cm by 23cm), though slim (32 pages) volume puts faces to the complex people we have come to know through the pages of the Discworld books -- Paul Kidby has obviously made a meticulous study of Pterry's works in order to be able to portray the characters so accurately and lovingly.
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For the newcomer and the old hand alike the Discworld can be a fatally confusing
planet. From the great city of Ankh-Morpork, featuring a river you could skateboard across
if it wasn't so knobbly, to the distant Ramptop Mountains and the mysterious Counterweight
Continent, the Discworld is a place where Death waits around every corner...
For safety's sake, you need a guide.
And here it is. Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, respectively chronicler and
cartographer of the Discworld, have produced the one and only definitive guide to the flat
planet -- its geography, its flora and fauna, its (many) religions, its architecture and
customs, and its outstanding personalities.
What is a Quantum Weather Butterfly? What does Death keep on his desk? Would you drink
Bearhugger's Homeopathic Sipping Whiskey? How are the kings of Ankh-Morpork different from
the kings of Ankh?
Everything the Discworld traveller needs to know is contained in these pages, together
with useful maps and illustrations of significant places and emblems in this unique world.
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