The one that started it all. Rincewind is the most incompetent wizard on the Discworld - a dropout from Unseen University who can't even cast a spell. When Twoflower, the Disc's first tourist, arrives in the city of Ankh-Morpork with a sentient, homicidal trunk full of gold, Rincewind is press-ganged into serving as his guide. What follows is a journey across a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle - through dragon-haunted mountains, over the edge of the world, and into the kind of trouble only the universe's unluckiest wizard could find. Terry Pratchett's first Discworld novel, a gleeful parody of fantasy fiction that lays the groundwork for one of literature's great comic creations.