A Discovery of the World, also called A Description of the World, was a book written by Vilhiard of Procampur, a renowned scholar and monk of Deneir. It told of his travels into the Hordelands and other lands of the East, and described all the lands he explored and the customs of the peoples he met, such as the Tuigan. The book was written with the Thorass script in a corresponding archaic language and older spellings for Tuigan terms, such as naming them "Taangan". It was an illuminated manuscript; that is, it contained painted images.