Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12550 in Books
• Published on: 1993-11-04
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Map
• 16 pages

Synopsis
A full-colour fold-out map (A1 size) detailing the streets of the Discworld's most important city, Ankh-Morpork. It includes all the landmarks of the novels, including the Unseen University, the Shades and the Mended Drum.

About the Author
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie.

Stephen Briggs
Terry Pratchett is fifty and lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire, where he answers letters in a desperate attempt to find time to write. He used to grow carnivorous plants but now they've taken over the greenhouse and he avoids going in. He feels it may be time to get a life, since apparently they're terribly useful. Carpe Jugulum is the twenty-third novel in his phenomenally successful Discworld series.

Customer Reviews

Finally, you can get lost WITH a map!
First of all the booklet here contains only the numbered key and explanations behind the production of the map--but this isn't too bad. Ankh-Morpork has been so thoroughly explored in so many books that it would be hard to put together a booklet sumarzing important things--though the Merchant Guild's famous guide (in full) or something put together by C.M.O.T. Dibbler would have been good.

It was apparently a long process involving many revisions--but it was well worth it. It may not be perfect (but what map beyond the imagination is?) but it is darn close and now I'm ready to read through my next Discworld novel with the map close at hand to trace the route some characters travel.

If you're at all into Discworld then you simply cannot pass up this map! The mapp of Lancre and Death's Domain may not be essential, but this one so illuminates the Disc's premier city that I would consider it essential for any true fan or devotee.

The first map, the best map
Of all the discworld mapps, this has to be the best and most interesting. Drawn merely from descriptions of the city of Ankh-Morpork, it shows a remarkably consistent city - considering that TP never even considered mapping it before starting his works. The fact that is *was* possible to create a consistent map of this city is one of those disturbing facts that make you wonder whether to believe in magic after all.

Recommended.

For the devoted fan
I was interested in this map, mainly because i wanted to compare what i pictured in my mind with what Terry Pratchett himself thought! it turned out that the two idea were remarkably similar! i like looking at it sometimes while i reread a book just so i can get the pictures in my mind clearer! (for some reason i like knowing where the Patrician's Palace is in relation to the action) but there is a limited amount you can do with a map except look at it or put it on the wall so this is a purchase strictly for the fans among you.