A review by woolfardis
A Tourist Guide to Lancre: A Discworld Mapp by Stephen Briggs, Terry Pratchett
4.0
It would be so easy for these little books to simply be maps and nothing else: in fact, I and most other PTerry and Discworld fans probably wouldn't be that fussed if the maps of Ankh-Morpork, Lancre, Death's Domain and the Disc as a whole were lumped together in one bigger little book and just be pull-out maps to be unfolded and perused and nothing more. Maps are as important to books as the words of the story and the characters therein.
This map of Lancre is accompanied by some quotes from the books as well as little facts of the land, but also features some little monologues by some key Discworld characters who inhabit Lancre, either permanently or at one point, and gives a better understanding of what is the most magical place on the Disc.
It must be noted that this map edition was released in the late 90s, when there were fewer Discworld novels published and absolutely no hint of Tiffany Aching, so it will miss out quite a few things about Lancre that occured in later Discworld novels.
This map of Lancre is accompanied by some quotes from the books as well as little facts of the land, but also features some little monologues by some key Discworld characters who inhabit Lancre, either permanently or at one point, and gives a better understanding of what is the most magical place on the Disc.
It must be noted that this map edition was released in the late 90s, when there were fewer Discworld novels published and absolutely no hint of Tiffany Aching, so it will miss out quite a few things about Lancre that occured in later Discworld novels.