The Last Continent

By Terry Pratchett

Rincewind is off on another of his involuntary adventures, this time on XXXX aka Fourecks, the Discworld equivalent of Australia. Or not, as the author explains in the front of the book, "This is not a book about Australia. No, it's about somewhere entirely different which just happens to be, here and there, a bit . . . australian. Still . . . no worries, right?"
Rincewind's arrival was predicted and he is expected to save Fourecks, helped out by his usual weird lucky bad luck. And by a disappearing kangaroo who calls himself Scrappy.
Meanwhile, back in Ankh-Morpork, the Librarian is quite ill. He keeps changing shape, involuntarily. The wizards want to work a spell on him but in order to do so, they need to know his true name. But the Librarian refuses to reveal his name because he likes being an orangutan and he is afraid the wizards will make him human again. But none of the wizards know the Librarian's name. In fact, the only one, other than the actual Librarian, who might know his name is Rincewind, who used to be the Librarian's assistant.
The wizards are not sure how to get Rincewind back to the Unseen University. Before they figure it out, they discover a passageway in a bathroom that leads to a tropical island. Of course, they all have to go there. And of course, they all get stuck there when the housekeeper shuts the passageway unknowingly and trapping them all, including herself, on a tiny island in the distant past, inhabited by a strange little god who is trying to invent evolution and failing massively.
So what does it all have to do with Rincewind? Quite a lot. But first Rincewind has to survive living in XXXX.

This was a good story. There is a dwarf who is based on the Mad Max movie character. There is a bartender who a crocodile, called Crocodile Crocodile and the scene from the Crocodile Dundee movie, "you call that a knife" appears in the story. There is a nod to the movie, Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and the song Waltzing Matilda. And that Australian criminal that faced down the police in a suit of homemade armor, Ned Kelly, gets in the story, sort of. I suppose there are even more references that I didn't catch.
I think Mr. Pratchett had a lot of fun writing this story.