The Disc itself is approximately 10,000 miles wide, giving plenty of opportunity for author Sir Terry Pratchett to explore the themes of religion, fundamentalism and inner-city tension that underpin the 40-plus titles in the Discworld series. Together they set off for the edge of the planet, encountering many a mythical creature along the way. When Discworld’s first-ever tourist arrives on this unique land – an insurance salesman with luggage that runs on its own legs – the failed wizard Rincewind becomes his guide. It’s completely flat and propped up by four huge elephants standing on the back of a giant turtle, swimming through space. The Colour of Magic is the first novel in Terry Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series, of which some 20 million copies have been sold.Discworld is not your everyday planet. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries, and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but that looks completely different. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot." "Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld.
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