Xanth · Book 20
Yon Ill Wind
- Published
- 1 January 1996
- Pages
- 320
- ISBN-13
- 9780340654255
- Type
- novel
About this book
The 20th Xanth novel, Yon Ill Wind appeared in 1996, 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 320 pages.
Its place in Xanth
Yon Ill Wind is book 20 in the Xanth series. It follows Roc and a Hard Place. It is followed by Faun & Games. 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 9780340654255