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Howondaland is often mentioned as an example of dark and mysterious jungle in the continent of Klatch. Howondaland has a brief appearance as the location of the Lost Jewelled Temple of Offler, in Reaper Man.

It is also, by his own account, the ancestral home of the spirit guide One-Man-Bucket, who bemoans not having been born in its wide-open plains, as is his perceived birthright. Unless part of Howondaland actually has wide open plains where Indians roam, rather than just thick impenetrable jungle, the possibility exists that Bucket is fantasising.

Was much visited by (and anthropologised by) Lady Alice Venturi. Or Alice in Howondaland, which fits....

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Presumably comes from "Wonderland", as in Alice in Wonderland, a work of nonsense literature written by Lewis Carroll, considered a classic example of the genre and of English literature in general. However, TP has openly stated that he dislikes the book: "I didn't like the Alice books because I found them creepy and horribly unfunny in a nasty, plonking, Victorian way. Oh, here's Mr Christmas Pudding On Legs, hohohoho, here's a Caterpillar Smoking A Pipe, hohohoho. When I was a kid the books created in me about the same revulsion as you get when, aged seven, you're invited to kiss your great-grandmother." See here: [1]

Of course the name could be from Gondwanaland, one of the ancient supercontinents of Earth, as the existence of continental drift on Discworld, including a Pangola (instead of Pangea) is documented.