The Last Continent
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The Last Continent
"If you are unfamiliar with Pratchett's unique blend of philosophical badinage interspersed with slapstick, you are on the threshold of a mind-expanding opportunity." --Financial Times
Chaos ensues when Discworld's deliciously hapless wizard Rincewind goes walking about in the Down Under in this wonderfully witty satire from legendary internationally bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett.
There's big trouble at the Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's prestigious and only institute of higher learning. A professor is missingโand the one person who can find him is not only the most bumbling magician the school ever produced, he's currently stranded in Fourecks, Discworld's last (and unfinished) continent. The down-under is hot (so hot) and it's dry (so dry)โthough it's rumoured there was once this thing called The Wet, but no one believes that. Practically everything here that's not poisonous is venomous.
Discworld's most inept wizard and his companion, Luggage, are eager to get homeโbut first Rincewind has to survive a pushy mystical kangaroo trickster named Scrappy and a mob of Fourecks hooligans determined to hang him. All his problems would be solved if he could just make it rain... for (maybe) the first time ever. And if the time-travelling professors from UU working on rescuing him can get to the right millennium...
The Discworld books can be read in any order, but The Last Continent is the sixth book in the Wizards collection (and the 22nd Discworld book). The other books in the Wizards collection include:
- The Colour of Magic
- The Light Fantastic
- Sourcery
- Eric
- Interesting Times
- Unseen Academicals
Series: Wizards
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780063373723
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 April 2024
Country: United States
Imprint: Collins
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 25.0mm
Width: 132.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 295g
Pages: 384
About the Author
Terry Pratchett (1948-2015) is the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.
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