Book:The Celebrated Discworld Almanak
| The Discworld Almanak | |
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| Co-author(s) | Bernard Pearson |
| Illustrator(s) | Paul Kidby Bernard Pearson Sheila Watkins |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Publication date | 2004 |
| ISBN | 0385606834 |
| Pages | 128 |
| RRP | £9.99 |
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| Series | [[:Category:|]] |
| Annotations | View |
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| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
The Celebrated Discworld Almanak of the Year of the Prawn is one of the splendid miscellany of books about Discworld with no specific novel value, but with background details in that no fan would dream of not knowing.
Featuring some new characters such as Makepeace Thomas Bounder and Josiah Remnant.
Printed on thin paper, which comes in handy in rural areas...
Blurb
Being an essential guide to all aspects of life, and a reliable means of ensuring fertility or crops and livestock. Also a boon companion in the affairs of the heart and health.
With notes on Husbandry, Fairs & Marts, and other such information was will render this publication a staunch companion to Townsman and Tiller of the Soil alike.
"Where would we be without it." —Havelock Vetinari
"A good stiff cardboard cover that will provide a whole month of inner soles, and soft paper inside, truly a book for the working man." —Bernard Pearson
"Better read than dead." —Reg Shoe, Fresh Start Club, 668 Elm St, Ankh-Morpork
"With thys Almanak as my gide my every venture is bound to prosper." —C.M.O.T. Dibbler
Characters mentioned
- Makepeace Thomas Bounder
- Thomas Cropper
- Professor Alkhali Dibblah
- Ronald Goatberger
- Mrs Insuffulator
- Mistress Edith Leakall, a Pig Borer
- Josiah "Cabbage" Remnant
- Sir Henry Rumptuous
- Lady Rumptuous
- Miss Ophelia Spoonfeeder
- Wilf (quite possibly the God of Celestial Orbs and Geometries)
Also see
External links
- The Discworld Almanak on Wikipedia
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