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A wizard of Earthsea

Set in the fantasy world archipelago of Earthsea depicting the adventures of a budding young wizard named Ged. Duny (renamed Ged later) is a young boy from Gont, one of the larger islands which dot Earthsea. His mother being dead, his father a dour, taciturn bronze-smith, and his much older siblings having already left home, he grows up alone, headstrong and wild. The boy discovers he has a strong innate affinity for magic. His aunt, the village witch, teaches him the little she herself knows, but his power far exceeds hers
Print Book, English, 1971, ©1968
Puffin, [Harmondsworth], 1971, ©1968
Fiction
200 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm
9780140304770, 9780140157765, 0140304770, 014015776X
12464944
Originally published: Berkeley, Calif. : Parnassus, 1968