The Black Elfstone: Book One of the Fall of Shannara'TERRY'S PLACE IS AT THE HEAD OF THE FANTASY WORLD' Philip Pullman The first book of the triumphant four part conclusion to the SHANNARA series, from one of the all time masters of fantasy. The age of peace that has reigned across the Four Lands is now at an end. An army of invaders, wielding a terrible new magic, is cutting a bloody swathe across the far north The fate of the world now rests on the shoulders of an exiled druid, a conflicted warrior,