Artist Paul Kidby's own voyage through Terry Pratchett's
legendary Discworld, THE ART OF DISCWORLD brings together -
- in glorious color and intricate black and white -- a
cornucopia of characters that have won the hearts of
millions of adoring readers the world over.
Discworld might have started out in the imagination of its
Creator, the incomparable Terry Pratchett, but over the
past 30 books, it has taken on a life of its own. Floating
through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a
giant turtle, it's a world bursting with magic, a land of
contrasts and extremes, from the bustling metropolis of
Ankh-Morpork, the oldest city on the Disc, to the ancient
empire of Klatch, where there are fifteen words for
assasination. There's the mysterious continent XXXX, or
Fourcks, where nothing anyone has ever heard is really an
exaggeration, and the dark country of Uberwald, where
things do go bump in the night. And then there are
Discworld's inhabitants: the witches Granny Weatherwax,
Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick (now a Queen, of course). There
are the Monks of History and the ancient Vampyre families.
There are great heros, like Cohen the Barbarian and his
Hoarde, Sam Vines, Captain Carrot and the men of the City
Watch . . . and there are the ordinary folk like Cut-Me-
Own-Throat-Dibber, Foul Ole Ron, the Igors . . . and then
there's Death.
Brought to life by Paul Kidby, the artist who collaborated
with Pratchett on the illustrated fable The Last Hero, THE
ART OF DISCWORLD is the ultimate companion volume to Terry
Pratchett's bestselling Discworld series.
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