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Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook: To Travelling Upon the Ankh-Morpork & Sto Plains Hygienic Railway (Discworld)

Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook: To Travelling Upon the Ankh-Morpork & Sto Plains Hygienic Railway (Discworld)

FantasyHumor
Pages
144
Published
2014
Language
English

Synopsis

An in-universe travel handbook for passengers of the Discworld's new railway, written by the fictional Mrs Bradshaw — a recurring voice of cheerful, practical, and entirely wrong tourist advice. A companion to the Discworld novel Raising Steam, the guide describes the destinations of the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway, the people one might meet there, and the customs one ought to observe. Illustrated by Peter Dennis.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

FunnyInformativeWhimsical
Portal Fantasy

Genres

Fantasy Humor Short Stories Travel

About the author

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Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) was an English author best known for the Discworld series, a sequence of forty-one comic fantasy novels set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. Across four decades, the Discworld grew from a parody of sword-and-sorcery fantasy into one of the most sustained works of social satire in English literature, examining politics, religion, science, gender, race, capitalism, and the nature of stories themselves. Pra...

Frequently asked questions

  • What is Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook?

    An in-universe travel guide to the Discworld railway from Raising Steam, written in the voice of the fictional Mrs Bradshaw. First published in October 2014 by Doubleday, illustrated by Peter Dennis.

  • Do I need to read Raising Steam before this?

    Recommended. The handbook is a companion piece to the novel and is most enjoyable after reading Raising Steam, though it can be read as a standalone piece of Discworld ephemera.

  • Is the content humorous?

    Yes — it is written entirely as a parody of Victorian travel literature, with the fictional Mrs Bradshaw offering advice that is simultaneously earnest and comprehensively misleading.