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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel
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The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel Paperback - 2006

by Jones, Diana Wynne

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An uproarious comprehensive guide for those undertaking tours of Fantasyland, this authoritative A-Z guide constitutes an essential source of information for all who dare to venture into the imaginative hinterlands, providing acute insights into such subjects as: the varying types of virgin, why High Priests are invariably evil, how Dark Lords always have minions, and why Cooks all have filthy tempers.

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Firebird. Used - Good. . Paperback This item shows wear from consistent use but remains in good readable condition. It may have marks on or in it, and may show other signs of previous use or shelf wear. May have minor creases or signs of wear on dust jacket. Packed with care, shipped promptly.
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  • Title The Tough Guide to Fantasyland: The Essential Guide to Fantasy Travel
  • Author Jones, Diana Wynne
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Rev Upd
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Firebird, New York
  • Date 2006-10-05
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2HH-04-1087
  • ISBN 9780142407226 / 0142407224
  • Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.2 x 5.5 x 0.6 in (20.83 x 13.97 x 1.52 cm)
  • Ages 12 to UP years
  • Grade levels 7 - UP
  • Reading level 990
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, English, Children's stories, English
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006041153
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Summary

Imagine that all fantasy novels—the ones featuring dragons, knights, wizards, and magic—are set in the same place. That place is called Fantasyland. The Tough Guide to Fantasyland is your travel guide, a handbook to everything you might find: Evil, the Dark Lord, Stew, Boots (but not Socks), and what passes for Economics and Ecology. Both a hilarious send-up of the cliches of the genre and an indispensable guide for writers, The Tough Guide to Fantasyland has been nearly impossible to find for years. Now this cult classic is back, and readers can experience Diana Wynne Jones at her very best: incisive, funny, and wildly imaginative. This is the definitive edition of The Tough Guide, featuring a new map, an entirely new design, and additional material written for it by Diana Wynne Jones.

World Fantasy Award Finalist

A Hugo Award Finalist (Nonfiction)

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Media reviews

"This brilliantly written satire perfectly celebrates and skewers the clichés of the fantasy genre. It is a highly recommended purchase…." —VOYA

Citations

  • Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks, 11/01/2006, Page 154
  • Voice of Youth Advocates, 10/01/2006, Page 348

About the author

Diana Wynne Jones was the multiple award-winning author of many fantasy novels for children, teenagers, and adults. Her book Howl's Moving Castle was made into an Academy Award-nominated major animated feature by Hayao Miyazaki. She received the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. Married to the medievalist J. A. Burrow, with whom she had three sons, she lived for many years in Bristol, the setting for many of her books. Diana Wynne Jones passed away in March 2011, after a long illness.

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