![]() ![]() ![]() Sir Samuel Vimes, Commander of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch and Duke of Ankh, is sent as an envoy and ambassador from Ankh-Morpork to witness the coronation ceremony of the dwarf’s new Low King. This time however, instead of setting off across the sea to Klatch, they’re heading inland towards Überwald, home to a large majority of the ethnic minorities within Ankh-Morpork including three of Vimes’ best, Angua, Detritus and Cheery. The Fifth Elephant continues on the tales of Jingo by hosting another international flavour. These books, beyond being a story of Samuel Vimes and his Watch, are a story of urban growth in a fantasy world without electricity. There is now a traffic department, homing pigeons for communication between the Watch and international communication through the clacks. ![]() The twenty fourth Discworld novel is also the sixth City Watch story, and as such continues the urban development of Ankh-Morpork. Granted, it’s a contender insomuch as the Rock would be versus Ali, but it’s still in there! There are books that follow that outshine this book, but only in the way that one star outshines a slightly smaller star. When I am asked to pick my favourite Terry Pratchett book, The Fifth Elephant is always on my mind as a contender. ![]()
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