**_A Practical Guide to Conquering the World_ can be read by itself, but for those who like endings it can also be considered the refreshingly pragmatic conclusion to World Fantasy Award-winning author K.J. Parker's acclaimed sequence of novels that began with _Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City_
The inheritance almanac: an a-z guide to the world of eragon
✍ Scribed by Michael Macauley
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books;Alfred A. Knopf ©2010
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 1 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0375896848
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Christopher Paolini's world of Alagaesia is a magical land, full of mysterious people, objects, and places-one that has captivated millions of fans across the globe. Now, with the Inheritance Fan Book , those fans have a resource in the form of an A-to-Z almanac, where they can find everything they ever wanted to know about this fascinating world. From Arya to Zar'roc, this is an exhaustive encyclopedia about the land of the Inheritance cycle that also offers little-known facts gleaned from dozens of interviews with Christopher Paolini.
Did you know . . .
-that Helgrind, the den of the Raz'ac, is based on a real rock formation?
-that Saphira's blue-tinted vision was inspired by Paolini's own color blindness?
-that the Broddrings are the original humans who traveled to Alagaesia with King Palancar?
A must-have book for every Inheritance fan!
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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***A Practical Guide to Conquering the World* can be read by itself, but for those who like endings it can also be considered the refreshingly pragmatic conclusion to World Fantasy Award-winning author K.J. Parker's acclaimed sequence of novels that began with *Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City*
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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA
Prologue -- A digression on legal English -- The elements -- Correctness -- The choice of words: Introductory -- The choice of words: Avoiding the superfluous word -- The choice of words: Choosing the familiar word -- The choice of words: Choosing the precise word -- The handling of words -- Punctua