The Farthest Shore
A young prince joins forces with a master wizard on a journey to discover a cause and remedy for the loss of magic in Earthsea. Darkness Threatens to overtake Earthsea. As the world and its wizards are losing their magic, Ged -- powerful Archmage, wizard, and dragonlord -- embarks on a sailing journey with highborn young prince, Arren. They travel far beyond the realm of death to discover the cause of these evil disturbances and to restore magic to a land desperately thirsty for it.
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Third Earthsea novel. The young prince Arren of Enlad arrives at Roke to tell the Archmage Ged that magic is fading from the islands. Ged takes Arren on a long sea voyage west to find the source of the failing.
The Farthest Shore is the third book in Ursula K. Le Guin's original Earthsea Trilogy, after A Wizard of Earthsea and The Tombs of Atuan. Le Guin later added three more books and a story collection.
Yes. The Farthest Shore won the 1973 National Book Award for Children's Books. It is widely considered the strongest entry in the original Earthsea trilogy by some readers, though The Tombs of Atuan has equal admirers.
The Farthest Shore was written by Ursula K. Le Guin, published in 1972 by Roc.
The Farthest Shore is 223 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Farthest Shore takes most readers 3 to 5 hours to finish.
The Farthest Shore is a standalone novel by Ursula K. Le Guin, not part of a series.
The Farthest Shore is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.