Xanth · Book 12
Man from Mundania
- Published
- 1 January 1989
- Pages
- 361
- ISBN-13
- 9780380752898
- Type
- novel
About this book
The 12th Xanth novel, Man from Mundania appeared in 1989, continuing Piers Anthony's saga of the Human Being lineage and their neighbors navigating magic talents, quests, and the barrier that separates Xanth from mundane Mundania. It runs 361 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Man from Mundania is book 12 in the Xanth series. It follows Heaven Cent. It is followed by Isle of View. See the full Xanth reading order.
Xanth is a magical peninsula shaped like Florida, separated from the mundane, non-magical world (Mundania) by a barrier only a few can cross. Every native-born Xanthian has a unique magic talent, discovered around adolescence — anything from summoning storms to turning objects invisible to producing terrible puns out of thin air — and a great deal of the series' plot turns on characters discovering, hiding, or weaponizing their talents. Xanth's landscape is riddled with elemental spirits, centaurs, ogres…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780380752898