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Title details for The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett - Available

The Last Continent

#22 in series

by Terry Pratchett
Nigel Planer
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'Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.'
There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Even if their field of expertise is magic rather than biology. With the best and most interfering minds of Unseen University somehow left in charge at a critical evolutionary turning point, the Discworld's last continent needs a saviour...
Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Sheep shearer, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober.
In fact, it's Rincewind, a wizard so inept he can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left.
Still...no worries, eh?

  • Creators

  • Series

    Discworld

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    January 4, 2007

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781407033150
      • File size: 284915 KB
      • Duration: 09:53:34

  • Languages

    • English

  • Levels

    • Lexile® Measure: 760
    • Text Difficulty: 3-4

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      [Editor's Note: The following is a combined review with JINGO.] -- These two entries in Pratchett's popular Discworld series feature the usual crowd of eccentric people, drarves, trolls, werewolves, wizards, assassins, foreigners, and zombies, who inhabit the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork on the flat-earth Discworld, carried through space by the giant tortoise, Atuin. Hilarity and satire rule the day. In JINGO, two nations almost go to war over the appearance of a sometimes-here, sometimes not island. In THE LAST CONTINENT, the wizard Rincewind goes to "Australia," which has dried out, so he has to go back in time and encounters the god of evolution--you get the idea. Both are enormously entertaining tidbits, nicely rendered by reader Tony Robinson, whose wry, lively, breezy British accents vary with the characterizations. Each character is distinct; he uses pitch, pacing, and a nasal twang to draw out both the character and the humor. D.R.W. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine
    • AudioFile Magazine
      This whimsical fantasy from down under of an alternate world of fuddy-duddy wizards is a cross between the styles of Douglas Adams and A. A. Milne. Nigel Planer impersonates the characters with wit and aplomb, though with a slightly heavy hand. The sound quality ranges from barely acceptable to lousy. Y.R. (c) AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine

Formats

  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

subjects

Languages

  • English

Levels

  • Lexile® Measure:760
  • Text Difficulty:3-4

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