Jerome K. Jerome meets Lord of the Rings (with a touch of Peter Pan)β¦ On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. Thereβs an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear litt
The Colour of Magic (U.K. Edition)
β Scribed by Pratchett, Terry
- Book ID
- 107227304
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 221 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot.Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. It plays by different rules. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers.But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea...
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