''The Discworld Mapp'' is an

atlas An atlas is a collection of maps; it is typically a bundle of maps of Earth or of a region of Earth. Atlases have traditionally been bound into book form, but today many atlases are in multimedia formats. In addition to presenting geographic ...

that contains a large, fold out map of the ''

Discworld ''Discworld'' is a comic fantasy"Humorous Fantasy" in David Pringle, ed., ''The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' (pp.31-33). London, Carlton,2006. book series written by the English author Terry Pratchett, set on the Discworld, a flat pla ...

'' fictional world, drawn by Stephen Player to the directions of

Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his ''Discworld'' series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first nov ...

and Stephen Briggs. It also contains a short booklet relating the adventures and explorers of the Disc and their discoveries. It was originally conceived as the second in a series of three maps, along with '' The Streets of Ankh-Morpork'' and ''

A Tourist Guide to Lancre ''A Tourist Guide To Lancre'' is the third book in the ''Discworld Mapp'' series, and the first to be illustrated by Paul Kidby. As with the other maps, the basic design and booklet were compiled by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs. The Mapp ...

''. For this work, Briggs became known as the "cartographer of Discworld." A fourth atlas, ''

Death's Domain ''Death's Domain'' is a book by Terry Pratchett and Stephen Briggs, and illustrated by Paul Kidby. It is the fourth in the ''Discworld Mapp'' series, other publications of which include ''The Streets of Ankh-Morpork, The Discworld Mapp'' and& ...

'', was added to the series. After its publication, Pratchett was surprised to learn that British bookshops were displaying it in their nonfiction sections because, they argued, it was a real map, though of a fictional place.

References

;Notes ;Bibliography * Clute, John and John Grant. '' The Encyclopedia of Fantasy''. New York:

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, 1997. / London: Orbit Books, 1997. .

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