The Farthest Shore
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the mythic archipelago of Earthsea, where magic is the lifeblood of civilization, a darkness is spreading — and the very power that sustains the world is dying. The Farthest Shore, the third and most epic installment of Ursula K. Le Guin's celebrated Earthsea Cycle, chronicles the perilous journey of the Archmage Ged and the young Prince Arren as they sail to the edge of the known world to confront a nameless evil that is draining magic from the land, leaving sorcerers mute and people without hope or purpose. Le Guin writes with a quiet, mythic authority that transforms high fantasy into profound philosophical inquiry, examining mortality, sacrifice, and the irreversible cost of immortality's temptation. Winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books in 1973, this novel stands as one of the towering achievements of twentieth-century fantasy literature, suffused with the author's characteristic moral gravity and luminous prose. For those willing to sail beyond the farthest shore, what awaits is not merely an adventure — but a reckoning with the deepest questions of what it means to be alive.
Author: Ursula Le Guin
Format: Paperback
Genre: Fantasy
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
In the mythic archipelago of Earthsea, where magic is the lifeblood of civilization, a darkness is spreading — and the very power that sustains the world is dying. The Farthest Shore, the third and most epic installment of Ursula K. Le Guin's celebrated Earthsea Cycle, chronicles the perilous journey of the Archmage Ged and the young Prince Arren as they sail to the edge of the known world to confront a nameless evil that is draining magic from the land, leaving sorcerers mute and people without hope or purpose. Le Guin writes with a quiet, mythic authority that transforms high fantasy into profound philosophical inquiry, examining mortality, sacrifice, and the irreversible cost of immortality's temptation. Winner of the National Book Award for Children's Books in 1973, this novel stands as one of the towering achievements of twentieth-century fantasy literature, suffused with the author's characteristic moral gravity and luminous prose. For those willing to sail beyond the farthest shore, what awaits is not merely an adventure — but a reckoning with the deepest questions of what it means to be alive.