The Wounded Land is a fantasy novel by American writer Stephen R. Donaldson, the first book of the second trilogy of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series. It is followed by The One Tree . The book is dedicated to Lester del Rey with the cryptic appendation: "Lester made me do it."

Oct 12, 1987 · In the first trilogy Thomas Covenant is profoundly influnced by the Land and all the people around him, and must reconcile their strength with his own anguish, eventually confronting his own failings to earn redemption; in the second everything the Land was, is lost.

The Wounded Land is the first novel in The Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant trilogy. " 4,000 years have passed since Covenant first freed the Land from the devastating grip of Lord Foul and his minions.

Jun 13, 2012 · In the first trilogy Thomas Covenant is profoundly influnced by the Land and all the people around him, and must reconcile their strength with his own anguish, eventually confronting his own failings to earn redemption; in the second everything the Land was, is lost.

Jun 1, 1980 · "The Wounded Land" is the first entry of the Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant trilogy. In the series, a leper, Thomas Covenant, is magically transported to The Land on several occasions to save it from the evil Lord Foul.

Armed with his stunning white gold, wild magic, Covenant must battle not only terrifying external forces but his own capacity for despair and devastation. His quest to save the Land from ultimate ruin is exciting and heroic as ever.

Thomas Covenant, leper and pariah in his own world, was back in the Land, high up on Kevin's Watch, again listening to the evil promises of Foul. And beside him lay Dr. Linden Avery, whose efforts to save him had doomed her to share his summons.

This book reintroduces Thomas Covenant, a tortured hero, as he returns to a drastically changed Land. It takes place 4,000 years after the first trilogy, and Covenant must confront new evils while battling his own guilt.

Armed with his stunning white gold, wild magic, Covenant must battle not only terrifying external forces but his own capacity for despair and devastation. His quest to save the Land from ultimate ruin is as exciting and heroic as ever. “The Wounded Land is… a deeper, richer world than that presented in the previous volumes…