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The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara · Book 1

Ilse Witch

by Terry Brooks
Published
1 January 2000
Pages
576
ISBN-13
9781857239942
Type
novel
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About this book

Ilse Witch opened the trilogy in 2000 at 576 pages -- its longest volume -- as Walker Boh, now the last surviving Druid, races the sorceress of the title toward a trove of ancient technology and magic, roughly 130 years after the events of Heritage of Shannara.

Key facts about Ilse Witch

Terry Brooks wrote Ilse Witch, a novel on our list. It has been out since 2000. The book has 576 pages.

We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781857239942 to find the main one.

Ilse Witch is book 1 of 3 in The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series. The series has 3 published books. As a result, this is the book to start the series with.

Additionally, Terry Brooks writes The Original Shannara Trilogy, The Magic Kingdom of Landover and The Heritage of Shannara, plus 9 more series. Those series sit on our epic fantasy, fantasy and urban fantasy shelves. Meanwhile, Brona is the latest published Terry Brooks book on file, from 25 August 2026.

About Terry Brooks

Terry Brooks is one of modern fantasy's most commercially important authors, best known for The Sword of Shannara (1977), which became the first work of fantasy fiction to appear on the New York Times bestseller list and proved, alongside Tolkien's continuing popularity, that there was a mass commercial audience for epic fantasy. See every Terry Brooks book in order.

Its place in The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara

Ilse Witch is book 1 in the The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara series. It is followed by Antrax. See the full The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara reading order.

Terry Brooks's Voyage of the Jerle Shannara trilogy jumps forward roughly a hundred and thirty years past the Heritage quartet, following Walker Boh -- now the last surviving Druid of the restored order -- as he leads an expedition aboard the airship Jerle Shannara in a race against the Ilse Witch, a young sorceress as practiced in magic as Walker himself, to reach a trove of ancient, pre-apocalypse technology and magic hidden beyond the known Four Lands. Ilse Witch opens the trilogy as both parties set out from…

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