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They said it couldn't be done. Well, ithas been done, proving them wrong onceagain. After years of research, cunningly'contrived in as many minutes, the Discworld has itsmap. It takes full account of the historic and muchdocumented expeditions of the Discworld's feted (or atleast fated) explorers: General Sir Roderick Purdeigh,Lars Larsnephew, Llamedos Jones, Lady Alice Venturi,Ponce da Quirm and, of course, Venter Borass.Being the Onlie True & MostlieAccurate Mappe of the Fantastykand Magical DyscworldeNow travellers on this circular world can see it all: fromKlatch to the Ramtops, from Cori Celesti to the CircleSea, from Genua to Bhangbhangduc. The great citiesof Hunghung, Pseudopolis, Al Khali and, of course,Ankh-Morpork are placed with loving care upon thisworld which is carried through space by Great A'Tuin.I S B N 978-{)-SS214-324-0 9.999 11 lll 1111111Ijljll 11Devised bywww ter r ypratchett co.ukTERRY PRATCHETT& STEPHEN BRIGGSCOVER ILLUSTRATION BY STEPHEN PLAYER'De Chelonian Mobile'

Also by Torry PratchotlStrata - The Dark Side of the SunThe Unadulterated Cat (illustratod by Gray Jolliffo)The Carpet People - Truckers - Diggers - WingsOnly You Can Save Mankind - Johnny and the DeadJohnny and the Bomb - NationTho Discworld SoriesThe Colour of Magic - The Light Fantastic - Equal RitesMort - Sourcery - Wyrd Sisters - Pyramids - Guards! Guards!Eric (illustrated by Josh Kirby) - Moving Pictures - Reaper ManWitches A broad - Small Gods - Lords and LadiesMen at Arms - Soul Music - Interesting Times - MaskeradeFeet of Clay - Hogfather - Jingo - The Last ContinentCarpe Jugulum - The Fifth Elephant - The TruthThief of Time - The Last Hero (illustrated by Paul Kidby)The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (for youngroaders) - Night Watch - The Wee Free Men (for youngor readers)Monstrous Regiment - A Hat Full of Sky (for younger readers)Going Postal - Thud! - Wintersmith (for younger readers)Making MoneyDevised byTERRY PRATCHETT&. STEPHEN BRIGGSThe Science of Discworld(with Ian Stowart and Jack Cohen)The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (with Ian Stewart andJack Cohen)The Science of Discworld III: Darwin s Watch (with Ian Stewartand Jack Cohen)The New Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)Nanny Oggs Cookbook (with Stophon Briggs. Tina Hannan andPaul Kidby)The Pratchett Portfolio (with Paul Kidby)The Discworld Almanak (with Bernard Pearson)The Unseen University Cut-Out Book (with Alan Batley andBernard Pearson)Where s My Cow? (illustrated by Melvyn Grant)The Art of Discworld(with Paul Kidby)The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld(compiled by Stephen Briggs)The Folklore of Discworld(with Jacqueline Simpson)The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stophen Briggs)The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)A Tourist Guide to Lancre - A Discworld Mapp (with StephenBriggs. illustrated by Paul Kidby)Death s Domain (with Paul Kidby) CORGI BOOKS

ITRANSWORLD PUBLISHERS6 1- 63 Uxbridge Road , London W5 5SAA Random House Group CompanyNEE D E DAM APw \Vw. rbooks.co.ukTH E D1SCWORLD MAPPA CORGI BOOK: 9780552143240First published in Great Bri tainCorgi edition published 1995Copyright Terrtgf ratchett / Stephen Briggs 1995Discworld is a registered trademarkAnkh-Morpork is Terry & Lyn PratchettBlack and white illustrations by Stephen BriggsMap artwork by Stephen PlayerDiscworld Mapp design Terry Pratchett and Stephen BriggsTerry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs have asserted their right underthe Copyr ight, Designs and Patents Act 1988 to be identified as theauthor of this work.A CIP catalogue record for this bookis availabl e from the British Library.This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not,by way of trade or otherwise, be lent , resold, hired out,or otherwise circulated without the publisher's priorconsent in any form of- binding or cover other than thatin whi ch it is published and without a similar condition ,including this condition, being imposed on thesubsequent purchaser.Addresses for Random House Grou p Ltd companies outside the UKcan be found at: www.randomhouse.co.ukThe Random House Group Ltd Reg. No. 954009The Random House Group Limited supports The Forest Stewardshi pCouncil (FSC), the leading internationa l forest certifi cationorganisation. All our titles that are printed on Greenpeace approvedFSC certifi ed paper carry the FSC logo. Our paper procurementpolicy can be found at www.rbooks.co.uk/ environmentTypeset by Falcon Oast Graphic Art Ltd.Made and printed in Great Britain by Victoria Litho Limited468 10 9 75 3I said th ere would never be a mapif th e Discworld.Th is is it.Well . . I wasn 't quite as emphatic as that. ButI did worl)' about the 'map first, th en chronicle th esaaa ' schooliffanta sy writina· A map should be ifsomethina that is, in some material way, alreadythere. Drawina the wiaaly river and the pointymountains first bifore y ou actually build th e worldis th e preroaati ve onlyifaods.As the novels in the series were produced, itbecame obvious that the Discworld is now alreadyth ere. People send me mapsif it all the time whichusually look pretty much like th e sketches I havedoodled over the y ears. Th ey sometimes aet thinaswrona· Th ey ciften aet a lotif thinas ria ht .Anyway, I needed a map. Readers are perceptive.They notice little details.if a journeythat takessomeone three days in one book takes someone elset wo hours in anoth er, harsh thinas aet written . Ironyis employed. Besides, cifter eiahteen books, th e worldhas either aot some sortif shape or somethina hasaone wrona·Once aaain Stephen Briaas has a one throuah the

books and the filesif notes,MANY MILESand then spent aACROSS TORTUOUS TERRAIN .if time apparently moving cut-outcontinents around on a big circle if paper.terrible amountAfier an earlier map, The Streets of Ankh-Morpork, was published, people asked meif thisI thought this was going to be easy.will prevent jutureIt was the word Jantasy' that led me astray.stories. Well, London and New York have beenTolkien and his descendants apart, jantasy land-mapped jor some time, and still seem attractive asscapes are not known jor their precise cartography.locationsjor novelists. There will be more DiscworldEastjossilizationif the imaginationif theSun and Westif theMoon is not astories, I hope. The only difference is that now I'llpoint on a map. Over the Hills and Far Away ishave a map riference.This map possibly isn't the way things are. But itIn jact the area within a thousand milesis onenot a recommended AA holiday route.ifAnkh-Morpork, the Disc's premier city, wasn't tooif the ways they could be.difficult. It has been paced, ridden, flown over orTERRY PRATCHETT, November1995dropped into by so many Discworld charactersthat, as with the mapif Ankh-Morpork itself, theif patient note-taking.mapping was just a matterAs jor the greater picture . well, I thoughtthere'd be nothing to it. Slap down a jew additionalcontinents. Fretwork some fjords. Sprinkle on somecities, steppes and jorests. Jot down the traditionalfeatures that Terry Pratchett rifers to as 'the good oldwiggly river between the pointy mountains', pasteon the names, and I'd be home and looking jor aclean towel.In fact it took a lot more time than that . .I showed drcift# 1 to Terry,who looked at it jor

some time and said 'Do you know what a rainH ERE BE DRAGO NS .shadow is?' This was new to me, who took RciffiaAND HERE . AND HERE .insteadif Geography. I was aiven a short lecture onmountain ranaes and prevailina rain-bearinawinds, which aently led up to the Jact that I'd putthe Great Nif, the driest place in the world, in whatwould have been a velY larae swamp.I spent some time readina up on the subject untilI could bore people on the subjectif Plate Tectonicsand even knew what a drumlin was. This is theresult. I've tried to make it all work.Even so, I'm not sure that everythina on theDiscworld would quite pass muster on Earth, butsince the Earth has not travelled on the backif aturtle Jor at least a thousand years there arebound to be some loopholes bia enouah to drive anelephant throuah.All the Discworld books up to InterestingTimes have been used Jor the mappina process (asa result if the first drcifi; if Interesting Times anentire continent had to be shifted a couplehundred miles Jor the sakeif one line,ifbut that'snothina to us Plate Technicians). I've also used anumberif notes and unpublished fraaments.This is the result. I hope you enjoy it.STEPHEN BRIGGS, November 1995If the first question an intelligent speciesformulates for the universe at large is 'Whyare we here?' the next one must be 'Where ishere, exactly?'Many bold explorers set out to discover thedistant reaches of the Discworld. Several ofthem returned.Exploration is, like geography, a highlypersonal craft. It assumes that 'here' isimportant and everything else is a sort ofsub-place whose main function is to be a longway away.It must also be done by professionals.Those distant places may have people inthem who think they know where they are,but they are mistaken; simply turning up ona log raft 20,000 years ago, or wanderingacross the dried-up sea bed during an IceAge or even, in extreme cases, actuallyevolving on the continent in question, doesn'tcount as proper discovery. It is merely hangingabout. To be a proper discovery you must beproperly dressed.

Rule One about being an explorer is thatyou must wear some decent trousers,although a sensible dress is permissible forthose of the female persuasion. And you musthave started out with the idea of Discovery inmind - merely bumping into a continentwhile on the way to somewhere else doesn'treally count, nor does finding the place whileambling across a land bridge merely becausethe glaciers had melted.Most of the Discworld's recorded journeysof exploration were perforce by people whoknew what proper Exploration was, andweren't just following the mammoths. Theyalso wore proper trousers .They travelled to areas of low historicalpotential, set foot on shores where no manhad gone before (that is to say, no one worthspeaking of) and then smacked any availablenatives around the head to fmd out what theplace was called .The boldest explorers, who were generallythose who thought the sea went on forever,never returned. This might be taken as proofthat they were right.However, among those who did return,even if only by accident, were:GENERAL SIR RODERICK PURDEIGHs. of Major-General Sir Ruthven Purdeigh,Royal Sto Plains Riflers I (d. 1858), ofGrunefair, Ankh-Morpork, and Margaret, neeBurberry (d . 1856); b. 14 Spune 1842(disappeared on or around 25 Sektober1898); Educ. Thrasher's School, Pseudopolisand Sto Lat Military Academy. Career:Joined Quirm Lancers as ADC to crc; transferred on promotion to the 35th LlamedosianFoot, serving as platoon commander underGeneral Lord Rust; promoted (in error) toColonel in the field of battle (at the expenseof Captain the Honourable Rupert Purdey,hero of Lawke's Drain); then transferred tothe Royal Sto Plains Riflers where he servedfor 5 years at GHQ before gaining promotion to General upon the death of Generalthe Duke of Eorle. Subsequently left thearmy and took up a career as an explorer.Publications : The Use if Pliers in Waifare, BootsI So ca lled for their habit of co llecting weapons, boots, gold tceU, andjewell ery ofr the stri cken enemy, and the idioti c bravery necessary to seelhat there were as many o f the stl-i cken as possible. So keen was theaverage riflingman that many would go into battle arm ed only w ith pli ersand armoured shoehorn, and would often manage, in the press o f batcle,to get tcctJ, and footwear from enemies who we re not o nly al ive butacti velyfighting back.

and Teeth: A Soldier's Life, The Old Manif theWoods, etc., etc.His life's goal was to rediscover the 'mythical' continent of XXXX and its companionislands ('Foggy Islands', reputedly the placewhere XXXX kept the lawnmower). Thisobsessed him, and he devoted a large part ofhis life to a meticulous search of the ocean inits rumoured position, proving to his satisfaction that there was no such place. He madethree important voyages during which heentirely failed to discover it; they were longerthan expected owing to his inability, once hedetermined to return home, to discoverAnkh-Morpork again. Or, indeed, any land ofany consequence at all.At one point towards the end of his firstodyssey he wrote a short monograph claimingthat the Circle Sea was in fact one millionmiles across. His erratic six-month voyage onit, during which he never once sighted land,has long been considered one of the most difficult ever achieved (akin to turning anelephant around inside a phone booth withouttouching the sides). It was curtailed only bythick fog, which prevented him from seeingwhere he was going, and thus allowed him toJst 10Joae - d 2nd VOJoae - 3Td VOJoae - .I 8 .D/ ,p"",IGeneral Sir Roderick Purdeigh's three epic voyagesacross, along and around the Widdershins Ocean, onwhich he proved conclusively that the counterweightContinent and the continentif XXXXcould notpossibly exist.collide with a shrimp boat five miles fromAnkh-Morpork.Navigators have speculated upon the secretof Sir Roderick's technique. It is known thathe eschewed the use of compasses, sextants,measuring ropes and other aids as unworthy ofthe true explorer, and chose instead to just sailaround until he could find someone to stopand ask the way. 12Fooli sh people who know nothing about the ethics of exploration mjghtrather naively point o ut that if there is anyone to be asked, you can 't bedo ing it properly. But sec the comm e nts on the nature or pro perex ploration, above.

This was his first mistake. It has nowbeen established that this n ever works.Firstly, whoever is stopped and asked ,whether at the bottom of a min eshaft , in theheart of a trackless jungle or high on somedistant glacier, never knows where they are(,sorry, dunno, 'm not from round here ')despite the fact that they are walking a dog.Or, much worse, they know where they are sointensively that they are quite unable to passon any worthwhile information to the traveller (,turn where you get to where the bootfactory used to be, no, tell you what, it'll saveyou some time, go along where the viaductwas, you can't miss it, then turn right only it'sreally straight ahead, and kind of jiggle pastthe main road and . . . no, I tell a lie, what youdo is, you go back down here till you get towhere you can see the old hospital was, onlyyou can't no more ' cos they 've taken the signaway, and . .')His second mistake was to assume implicitly that anyone he m et was fully capable ofunderstanding him if he shouted loudlyenough, and that failure to do so was a sign ofwilfulness, to be punished by a sharp prodwith Sir Rod erick's walking stick and anexhortation to smarten up, pay attention andstop slouching. As far as Sir Roderick wasconcerned, being foreign was like catchingsome minor but embarrassing sexual disease- it could be avoided by decent living, and ifyou happened to contract it, it was yourfault .This was to prove his undoing. His finalvoyage took him to the large island ofBhangbhangduc, which with his intuitive graspof geography he declared to be about thirtymiles from Ankh-Morpork. While his crewmade repairs he busied himself in studying therainforest fauna and flora, as detailed in hisshort and unfinished work The Man if theWoods. In particular he was incensed at thebehaviour of the local p eople :' . . a Red-haired, Ruffianl y but welltoothed crewe, who seem to be entirely .unwilling to conduct their lives in a propermanner and , instead, hang by their feet inthe trees all day, eating fruit and sleepingand engaging upon Further Activities whi chI will not detail lest this document be r eadby those of an Unmarried persuasion . Thatthey are quite capable of rational thought is

evinced by the fact that, when I made one ofL ARS L ARSNEPH EW, ' F ATHER O F E XPLO RATI ON'them the gift of an old pair of trouser s, thesehe instantly donned, although on his head;yet he per sisted in saying no more than ' ook'even when questioned in a slow'-clear voice,another example of the discourtesy soprevalent, I fear, in this part of the world. Iam determined to put a stop to this Follyand if it means a sharp prod with my walking stick then the cause of proper civilisedbehaviour will not fmd me wanting . . 'The walking stick was found in a tree somedays later.s,, . \ f , ""'!f .,f.tk . .l. . r.k . . tt.:. -L -"'4u. \---. -I-wf ". '""'., 1Al .,.'" tI- -f cw.\lsJ. '1Mf" .,ul.t - . , ---.-. of , .l IAl - - -' '"'"ILittle is known of the life of Lar s Larsnephewexcept that he never travelled further than tenmiles from the village of NoThing, inNothingfjord , where he was born. Yet heinspired one of the most sustained periods ofexploration in the history of the Disc. He wasnot so much an explorer as the cause of exploration in other people.This is thought to be because of his masteryof ancient sagas, some of which could last forseveral years. It was rumoured that the standing stones in the area were m erely people whohad sat through his complete r epertoire,which was mainly to do with snow. The mer esight of Lars looking thoughtful was enough tosend local people dashing to their longboatsand rowing desperately for the open sea; mostof them later grounded on islands which,while often inhospitable, had the major advantage of not containing Lar Larsnephew. Manyof them returned when he'd finished, but leftno foreign settlem ents or ver y precise navigational r ecords owing to being almostpermanently drunk on a form of beer madefrom herrings.

VoyaBes if Discovery inspired by Lars LarsnephewAs sea-borne, longboat-rowing, fair-hairedexplorers went, the villagers were not a greatsuccess. They possessed the tendency of someHubland peoples to be very meticulous onmatters of etiquette, and their forages to rape,loot and pillage along the wintry Rimwardcoastline of the Vortex Plains were consequently marred by their attempts to do so byappointment.The occupants of many far-flung hamletsnever pointed out to them the essential flawin this approach, and got quite used toreturning home from their temporary hideout in the hills to find a reproachful notesaying: 'We called today a.m'!p.m. but youwere out.'LLAMEDOS JONESNo chronicles of exploration would be complete without its quota of semi-mythicalreligious explorers, who could cross seas onmillstones or, in extreme cases, on foot. Themost notorious of these on the Disc wasLlamedos Jones, from that small, damp andmountainous country.

Legend says that he set out one day in hisleather coracle armed with no more than aholy sickle, a sack of mistletoe, a smallportable stone circle and a harmonium, in aninspired effort to bring the advantages ofStrict Druidism to the heathen. JHis evangelical endeavours were for someyears hampered by his inability to travel morethan three days in any direction, since he felt itnecessary to return to Llamedos for druidicsacrifices and male voice choir practice once aweek. He was finally given dispensation by thecircle elders to miss services and is believed tohave discovered the Brown Islands in the RimOcean by the very practical technique ofcontinuing with a straight line until he hitsomething.Evidence for his popular claim is sketchy.The natives of the Brown Islands are generallya friendly, easy-going race, who spend a lot oftime on the beach.However, there is one island where itrains a lot, choral singing has been elevatedto the status of a martial art, and the mostnoticeable religious ceremony involves two3That is to say, everyone el se. Llamedos Jones' voyagesif explorationteams of fifteen men who ritually maim oneanother in pursuit of a small ball which isn'teven properly round, just as is done inLlamedos.LADY ALICE VENTURIeldst. da. of Viscount Venturi (d. 1864) ofPseudopolis, and Wilhelmina, nee Higgins(d. 1828); b.

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