The Farthest Shore

Ursula K. Le Guin · 1972 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

Wizards across the archipelago are forgetting their spells, singers the words of their songs, and the dyers' colours have gone dull; a young prince out of Enlad carries the news to Roke. The Archmage takes the boy south and then west in an open boat, past raft-dwellers and a dragon shore, hunting the hole through which the world is draining. It took the National Book Award for Children's Books in 1973.

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• continues ↑ The Tombs of Atuan
  Ursula K. Le Guin · 1971 CE · Novel
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  Ursula K. Le Guin · 1990 CE · Novel — continues this

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Closest analogues

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  Peter Jackson · 2001 CE · Film

  51% · 11 shared
  FantasyAdventureEpicSacrificeContemporaryMentorHeroThe QuestMythicElegiacModern / American
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• Kiviuq
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  49% · 10 shared
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• The Lusiads
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  49% · 10 shared
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  48% · 11 shared
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• The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
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  48% · 11 shared
  NovelFantasyAdventureTranscendenceContemporaryThe QuestVoyage and ReturnThe SeaThe Ship / Boatvs SupernaturalMythic