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The Green Hills of Stranglethorn

Collect the missing pages from The Green Hills of Stranglethorn manuscript. Once all four chapters are complete, return them to Barnil.
Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Chapter I
Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Chapter II
Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Chapter III
Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Chapter IV

Description

Master Nesingwary will be so upset if he finds out!

He trusted me to proofread the manuscript of his novel, The Green Hills of Stranglethorn. Everything was going well, but a large gust of wind blew through the camp and scattered the pages everywhere!

I was able to gather most of the pages but many are still strewn about the jungle. Collect the pages to complete each of the four chapters.

I will help you organize them. Return the chapters to me once you have all four.

Reward

You will receive:
Jungle Boots
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
2
Thick Armor Kit
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
3
Superior Healing Potion

Progress

Have you assembled the chapters yet, <name>?

Completion

You've certainly saved me a heap of trouble, <name>! I can't thank you enough. It shouldn't be long now until we see Master Nesingwary's book in libraries throughout the world!

Gains

Upon completion of quests, get:
  • 470 experience (28 20 at max. level)

Related

Rating: +96 [-] [+]
By PhogHawk on 03/09/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
This is pretty straightforward. You automatically complete this quest after completing all four of the individual chapter quests. It's worth significantly (5 times) more XP than the individuals, and the reward items are pretty good.
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By JCorsair on 08/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
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By Truenos on 08/11/2006 (Patch 1.12.0)
My biggest piece of advise would be to always have at least 8 or 10 available slots in your bags when looking for these pages. They drop constantly and having to run back and forth to the bank can be a big pain. You don't have to turn in the chapters in order, so once you get one, go back to Barnil to free up some bag-space.
Rating: +254 [-] [+]
By Schlitzohr on 02/20/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
Chapter 1 - 1, 4, 6, 8
Chapter 2 - 10, 11, 14, 16
Chapter 3 - 18, 20, 21, 24
Chapter 4 - 25, 26, 27
Rating: +154 [-] [+]
By Drakara on 02/25/2007 (Patch 2.0.8)
Note that unlike the page collection quest in Ashenvale [https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=6504 https://vanillawowdb.com/?quest=6504], these pages are not completely sequential. I spent hours on my first character trying to obtain pages like 3,5 and 7 that don't exist.
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By gtdsav1 on 04/15/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By Elise on 04/22/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By sumcaper on 07/04/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
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By Wingsolid on 05/15/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By Wingsolid on 05/15/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
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By Darkraven on 05/27/2007 (Patch 2.1.0)
Rating: +76 [-] [+]
By Phfor on 06/23/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
As soon as I dinged 30 on my warrior, I took 2G to the AH and bought every page required for this quest. Most were under 6s each. It got me almost 30% of the level. Hard deal to beat for 2 gold.

Second best quest in the game.
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By Ranlom on 06/26/2007 (Patch 2.1.2)
Rating: +22 [-] [+]
By crescentwindx on 05/09/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
On my server, the pages are exorbitantly expensive on the alliance AH - but you can buy them for a fraction of the price on the neutral auction house in Booty Bay. So be sure to check there if the prices on your faction's auction house are too high!
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By thedrewster77 on 11/13/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
Quest is now worth 6550 exp
Rating: +26 [-] [+]
By Falenassasin on 11/18/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
As of 2.3: 6550 exp + 1110 exp for each chapter.
Rating: +6 [-] [+]
By Blackdraq on 05/11/2007 (Patch 2.0.12)
As an addendum to Truenos, with instant mail between your characters, I STRONGLY advise rolling a level 1 ""bank"" character in SW/IF or ORG and mailing all your pages to it as you get them. You can sell your pages for about 10-30 silver on the AH, and you can save/purchase the pages as you need without sacrificing valuable bag space. (Added perk is any mailbox is now effectively an auction house.) Happy hunting!
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By Miskaton on 06/11/2007 (Patch 2.1.1)
My pally just hit 40 doing this quest. What I did was a combination of farming and buying for this. Just do all of the lowest level quests in STV, especially the troll and rebel ones. By the time you finish those and a few of the ""Mastery"" quests you should have well over half of the pages. If you check out the http://wowstreet.ajs.com/wowstreet?report=search&amp;q=Green+Hills+of+Stranglethorn prices for all of the pages, you can just figure out exactly when the pages you have left will cost you little enough that you don't mind buying them.

I dinged 40 turning this in and then immediately turned around and headed back to Dustwallow to finish out all of those new quests added in 2.3 that I was too low level for when I did Dustwallow in the low-mid 30s. It was probably the fastest leveling I'll see until I'm doing the Linkin quests in my high 40s.
Rating: +38 [-] [+]
By Thalassicus on 12/12/2007 (Patch 2.3.0)
By the way, you can still use this method to keep your quest log and inventory uncluttered:

1) Pick up this quest
2) Pick up one or two chapter quests and turn them in (Can't do this without having 1)
3) Abandon the main quest to free up quest and inventory space until completing other chapters

It removes your existing chapters from your inventory, and you can get them back at any time by speaking to Barnil Stonepot again.
Rating: +110 [-] [+]
By mlawson03 on 07/06/2008 (Patch 2.4.2)
By the way, this is a reference to Ernest Hemingway's safari journal, ""The Green Hills of Africa.""
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By jbezorg on 09/15/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
Now we all know what drove Colonel Walter E. Kurtz insane in the Jungle.
Rating: +26 [-] [+]
By Mattharon on 09/22/2008 (Patch 2.4.3)
When I was doing this quest recently (for the sixth time), I used a Netherweave bag which has plenty of space. In order for the bag to remain uncluttered and highly organized, I put the pages in order.

Row 1 - 1, 4, 6, 8
Row 2 - 10, 11, 14, 16
Row 3 - 18, 20, 21, 24
Row 4 - 25, 26, 27

Note that chapter 4 has three pages, so when you've completely gotten them all, you'll have one empty space (if you use the Netherweave bag).

Organization helps.

Update:

This quest works with Refer-A-Friend bonus.

At level 36, the individual chapters quests are 3,300 experience each. (1,100 + 2,200 R-A-F bonus)
The main quest to turn in all the chapters is 19,650 experience. (6,550+13,100 R-A-F bonus)
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By Gobizku on 12/27/2008 (Patch 3.0.3)
This counts as 5 quests towards Loremaster of Eastern Kingdoms.

Upon accepting the quest, you are given 4 mini quests to turn the collected pages into chapters. Each one counts as a quest towards Loremaster and the final turn in of all chapters counts as a quest as well.
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By Mylan on 01/31/2009 (Patch 3.0.8)
Interested in reading the whole thing? Head to Nagrand and in Hemet's camp you will find the https://vanillawowdb.com/?object=182203 finished book.
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By warmblanket on 03/26/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)
I thought this was pretty neat, this quest was actually designed by Tigole (Kaplan) himself.

He also admits to it being the worst quest in all of WoW. More info here http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1096 http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1096

good stuff
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By BrockkD on 03/29/2009 (Patch 3.0.9)
Level 33 Warrior - 1100xp each Chapter quest and 5500xp from this quest, total of 10950. Well worth it considering how easy it is to acquire the pages with some gold. Just head to Booty Bay and go to the neutral Auction House, click the quest category and then type in Stranglethorn and hit enter, you'd be unlucky not to find at least one of each page on there with a buyout price.
Rating: +6 [-] [+]
By Holywitch on 10/03/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
If you are lazy and have about 20 spare gold, all pages can be easly bought in the AH. Don't go to the Booty Bay action house but to the main action house.

I've seen al pages at least 5 times. I think this is the best en easiest way if youre going for the achievement and are high level. (What is 20 g at lvl 80 ?)
Rating: +4 [-] [+]
By maireaine on 04/26/2009 (Patch 3.1.1)
If possible, you may actually want to check the prices on both your faction AH and the neutral AH. I was able to find the pages cheaper on the neutral AH.
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By Creig on 09/13/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
Yeah, I dont get why so many people hate this quest and why it's been said to be the ""worst quest in WoW"" by it's own designer.
It's a pretty easy quest to do while you're running about leveling in stranglethorn and actually the book itself if you read it all is a nice little bit of lore for us lore lovers.
Any pages you dont get you can usually pick up from the auction house in booty bay for like 10 silver and you get pretty nice rewards, a tonne of exp for doing so. I dont see the problem with it personally; its actually one of my favorites.
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By fleq on 09/21/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
I know it's been said but here's once more, all the pages for your Auction House convenience ( now with links if you prefer to farm ). Very much a quest worth doing on older servers. Maybe not on new ones but if you can just buy all the pages, it's totally worth the trouble.
Also, remember that the price difference between the Neutral and Faction AH varies between servers so check yours rather then believing the comments here.

Chapter 1:
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2725 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 1
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2728 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 4
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2730 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 6
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2732 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 8

Chapter 2:
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2734 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 10
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2735 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 11
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2738 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 14
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2740 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 16

Chapter 3:
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2742 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 18
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2744 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 20
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2745 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 21
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2748 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 24

Chapter 4:
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2749 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 25
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2750 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 26
https://vanillawowdb.com/?item=2751 Green Hills of Stranglethorn - Page 27
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By Redactatrix on 09/27/2009 (Patch 3.1.3)
I found some pages, bought some on the faction AH, and others on the neutral AH. Prices ranged from 4 silver to 2g25s on both AHs (this is on Tanaris server); I spent about 6g on all pages.

Received 1100 XP on each Chapter, as mentioned above, but got 6550XP for completion; lvl 34, patch 3.2.2.10505.
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By treerex on 04/30/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
As the quest text says, ""I was able to gather most of the pages but many are still strewn about the jungle. Collect the pages to complete each of the four chapters."" That's why you're only grabbing a few pages.
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By overstim on 07/31/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
I had this quest before, and got tired and dropped it. Now Im back as a lv77 to finish it (I want the achievement) but the quest isn't coming up for me. I turned on low-level quests on my mini-map but the NPC just says hi, doesnt offer it to me.
Rating: +4 [-] [+]
By fireplay on 01/27/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
With heirloom this quest gives 1200 XP per Chapter quest and 7200 XP for last and final quest. Added together it gives a total of 12000 XP
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By JanBrady on 03/13/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
So, I went back to get these done on my 80, since I'm working on my Loremaster and I had skipped them all way back when, because they seemed like a giant pain (because they were... are).

Bought all the pages at the local AH, save for one, which I got at Booty Bay, but the price was reasonable. Spent about 5g in total.

But then, I couldn't figure out how to combine the pages into chapters. I spent a good 10 minutes asking guildies, searching the intertubes, trying combinations of shift, drag, and right- and left-click. Because I'm a dork. Don't be a dork.

Get all the pages, then go talk to Barnil. Surprise! He's actually got 4 more quests to offer you, which will actually take all those pages and turn them into the chapters he wants, which will then allow you to actually complete the quest.
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By Ladadadada on 08/07/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
My leveling guild kept multiple complete sets of this in the guild bank at a time when most of the guild was in their 30s. When you discovered Hemet's camp and the quest you would suddenly realise what all those pages in the guild bank were for and would head down to Booty Bay to pick up a set. As you continued questing in Stranglethorn you would pick up pages which would all go back in the guild bank for the next person.

If you don't have a guild that does this, there are two strategies you can take. Which one you choose depends on the price of pages in your local auction house.

1. Cheap prices at AH: Buy them and turn in the quest. Vendor any that you pick up after this.
2. Expensive prices at AH: Do other quests in Stranglethorn Vale and hang on to at least one of every page you get. Send the rest to a bank alt and stick them in the auction house. Auction them one-at-a-time; don't sell stacks of them. The people buying them want exactly one of each page, no more. You should only need to collect about half the pages and sell them in order to make enough money to buy the ones you are missing.

Of course, there's no reason to stop collecting them after you have finished the quest if there's a healthy pile of gold to be made at the auction house.
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By Destler on 10/07/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
One thing that definitely helps when you turn in the pages is activating a MOLL-E if you don't have room in your packs to carry all the pages :)
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By Woshie on 11/07/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
You do NOT get RAF-bonus from these quests, confirmed by GM Barchocon @ EU.
Rating: +6 [-] [+]
By Catweazle on 04/11/2010 (Patch 3.1.3)
They nerfed this quest into Oblivion. You now only have to find a single page, and it drops off the first mob you kill.
Rating: +2 [-] [+]
By Geneticus on 06/30/2011 (Patch 3.1.3)
Got a quest here to find Page 14, but the old page does not work, have to loot the new one(s). so basically vendor em if you have pre-patch ones laying around for alts....

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