A hilarious adventure about a fantasy world in danger of destruction from that most vile of threats⦠tourism .Winner of the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Children's Literature in 1999. A humorous fantasy from Diana Wynne Jones. In a world next door to ours, the tourist industry is devastating the pop
The Dark Lord of Derkholm
β Scribed by Diana Wynne Jones
- Book ID
- 100569472
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 349 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062244566
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β¦ Synopsis
Mr. Chesney operates Pilgrim Parties, a tour group that takes paying participants into an outer realm where the inhabitants play frightening and foreboding roles. The time has come to end the staged madness . . . but can it really be stopped? Master storyteller Diana Wynne Jones serves up twists and turns, introduces Querida, Derk, Blade, and Shona and a remarkable cast of wizards, soldiers, kings, dragons, and griffins, and mixes in a lively dash of humor. With all the ingredients of high fantasy, this unforgettable novel will delight fans old and new.
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### [The Dark Lord of Derkholm](http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/47587.The_Dark_Lord_of_Derkholm) ### Everyone - wizards, soldiers, farmers, elves, dragons, kings and queens alike - is fed up with Mr Chesney's Pilgrim Parties: groups of tourists from the world next door who descend en masse every