Book Description
The Discworld floats through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle (once there were five elephants, but that's another story). 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 (now ruled with an iron hand in a velvet glove by the Patrician, Lord Vetinari), to the ancient empire of Klatch, where there are fifteen words for assassination. There's the mysterious continent XXXX, or Foureks, about which nothing anyone has ever heard is really an exaggeration, the tiny kingdom of Lancre and the dark country of Uberwald, where things do go bump in the night. And then there are the inhabitants: the witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, Magrat Garlick (now a Queen, of course). There are wizards galore, Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully, the Librarian, Rincewind, the Bursar . . . there are the History Monks and the ancient Vampyre families. There are great heroes, like Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde, Sam Vimes, Captain Carrot and the men* of the City Watch . . . and there are the ordinary folk like Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler, Foul Ole Ron, the Igors . . . and there's Death.

The Discworld might have started out in the imagination of its Creator, Terry Pratchett, but over the past 30 or more books, it has taken on a life of its own. Here, gathered together for the first time, is artist Paul Kidby's own voyage through the Disc, 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: Here is The Art of Discworld. werewolves, zombies, gargoyles, dwards – in fact, men of the Watch are actually few and far between these days.

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"The Discworld floats through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle (once there were five elephants, but that's another story). 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 (now ruled with an iron hand in a velvet glove by the Patrician, Lord Vetinari), to the ancient empire of Klatch, where there are fifteen words for assassination. There's the mysterious continent XXXX, or Foureks, about which nothing anyone has ever heard is really an exaggeration, the tiny kingdom of Lancre and the dark country of Uberwald, where things do go bump in the night." "The Discworld might have started out in the imagination of its Creator, Terry Pratchett, but over the past 30 or more books, it has taken on a life of its own." Here, gathered together for the first time, is artist Paul Kidby's own voyage through the Disc, in glorious colour and intricate black and white: a cornucopia of characters that have won the hearts of millions of readers the world over.

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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.