The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of the World of A Game of Thrones
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This lavishly illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of the seven kingdoms, providing vividly constructed accounts of the epic battles, bitter rivalries and daring rebellions that lead to the events of a song of ice and fire and hbo's game of thrones. In a collaboration that's been years in the making, martin has teamed with elio m. Garcia, jr. And linda antonsson, the founders of the renowned fan site westeros. Orgperhaps the only people who know this world almost as well as its visionary creator. Collected here is all the accumulated knowledge, scholarly speculation and inherited folk tales of maesters and septons, maegi and singers. It is a chronicle which stretches from the dawn age to the age of heroes, from the coming of the first Read more
Publisher : HARPER COLLINS
Publication date : June 19, 2014
Edition : First Edition
Language : English
Print length : 336 pages
ISBN-10 : 0007580916
ISBN-13 : 10
Item Weight : 10.4 ounces
Dimensions : 9.37 x 0.91 x 12.01 inches
Best Sellers Rank: #1,564,250 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Top Amazon Reviews
El libro se demoró solo unos días en llegar, me mantuvieron informada de su ubicación en todo momento, y llegó en perfecto estado. La calidad del libro es genial, preciosas ilustraciones. Recomendadísimo.
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2022 by Florencia
The outside of the book is beautiful and the padded leather feels great in your hands. But my favorite is the look and feel when you open it. It has that ancient script look and the quality of the paper is awesome. For the people who are 50-50 on buying it or the ones that want it but are afraid it won’t live up to the hype. Let me put your mind at ease. Buy it! You will not regret it.. Especially the GOT fans!
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Reviewed in the United States on November 18, 2022 by Anthony Y
Any GOT fan would love this gift absolutely love the info packed in these pages
Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2022 by Shawn
Very cool book. It did come damaged (clearly during the shipping process) but the seller credited the price and let me keep the book which was very nice.
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2022 by Renee
Everything from the artwork, to the facts! Amazing job
Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2022 by Kiara Velazquez
beautiful work, with tales divided into segments by chronology and geography and theme, and lots of beautiful pictures of beautiful lands and beautiful people and even some ugly people, and a really unsettling picture of old Aegon 1 looking very Nick Nolte-like. It's written in the frame of a Maester writing in-universe for King Joffrey/Tommen, in full honesty and maintaining a balance of realism with regards to ancient legends and stories, not being afraid to call out that "Brandon the Builder" appears inconsistently over several millennia, undoubtedly meant to insinuate many figures/architectural works in Westerosi history all merged and ascribed to a singular "Brandon the Builder" the book is quick with pre-history, but goes to painstaking detail on the First Men and their factionalism, the Andals coming like Vikings in overwhelming numbers and succumbing to the same in-fighting and factionalism, and so on. Familiar names and family names appear, with an unwritten implication (and in some cases, explicitly mentioned) that certain names and persons may not have actually existed in the time periods the singers and bards write they do. The book goes over the Valyrian period quickly, gives several pages to Nymeria and the 10,000 ships, and goes over each Targaryen king of Westeros in a "The Twelve Caesars" fashion, complete with indent editorials containing snippets of text written by contemporaries who may or may not be exaggerating or lying (such as the dwarf called 'Mushroom', playing the role of a Claudius by pretending to be a fool to get in close with the Targaryen court). Then it goes over each of the Seven Kingdoms' major landmasses and their histories, with some being surprisingly more interesting than others, such as the mysteries around Oldtown and the possibly fictitious "Maze Makers", the way the First Men of the Vale held out longer and harder than most other kingdoms against the Andals, the three ethnically diverse factions making up the Dornish (Salt Dornes, Sand Dornes, Sea Dornes). The last 1/4th of the book goes over Essos and the Summer Isles and briefly touches on other areas, fully fleshing out the world of Ice and Fire in a way likely that will never be touched upon in the TV series or in the books (such as the empire of Yi Ti and Leng, ASOIAF's Chinese, Mongol, Japanese, other east Asians) or similarities with Earth history with diversions like that of an interesting game of Civilization (slavers constantly raiding the Summer Isles, where the natives are black, only to have the Islanders be the first to invent Longbows and ocean-faring galleons to defend themselves). The book's only single major drawback, which is frustrating in its absence, is the lack of enough MAPS. Each of the Seven Kingdoms gets a piece of a map of their lands at the start of each chapter, but no place else gets a map beyond the single generic one at the start of the book. As such, lands and locations which show up over and over and over again all throughout the book (such as the Stepstones, the Broken Arm of Dorne, the Rhoyne river, all of Southoryos) are never shown on maps relative to other locations so you have no way of comprehending scope and scale of certain things without looking outside the book. Going to write this review, I saw on Amazon a listing for a separate book "The Lands of Ice and Fire" advertised entirely as maps of this world, so it seems the plot all along was to keep maps out so people would buy two separate works. weak looking at a map of the Known World on the ASOIAF wiki shows the geography so clearly, with locations of cultures and lands placed in such a suspicious way, such as having the east Asian looking Yi Ti in the far east, the Viking-like Andals at the very western tip of Essos, the Dothraki Sea being a large steppe area, north of which near where Moscow would be is a place coyly named Mussovy. All of which plays perfectly to my running theory that the world of Ice and Fire is actually very distant post-apocalyptic Earth, continents misshapen over time and technology (as well as imprecise mapping), "magic" is remnants of old technology, and the White Walkers are actually androids, using nanobots to make Wights out of people's bodies,
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Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2016 by Aiex Halo
Great book very descriptive as all his books-so you definitely feel your there! And fills inso many holes not explained in the GOT series.
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2022 by Christopher
After reading about ice and fire there is one quote that caught my eye and that was that the past is not certain, is made up of different people and we only get a glimpse of it through very distinctive lens so we never know what really happened but we can guess. If we want to understand our present however and hope for a better future, we must look at the past and not just memorize events and dates but learn about our ancestors' mistakes. There is no other way to learn, the maester writes. And this is why I love Martin's saga because no one else writes the way he does. I am sure there are other sagas that are just as good, but no other imaginary world compares to his. In his new book, Martin has expanded the world of game of thrones besides the two continents of Westeros and across the narrow sea with the free cities,Volantis and the other key places that figure in the story, but has mentioned other places with other civilizations and kingdoms with kings, queens, tribal leaders, republics that are just as complex as the ones found in Westeros. At the same time the book is written in the same format of his other books, so the voice we hear in this book is that of a maester who is not himself sure of what the truth is so he always cautions the readers to take fantastical accounts with a grain of salt, and consider other sources. This is a great addition to the Song of Ice and Fire and for those who want to know the mysterious origins of all the races and groups, you guys should read this books. It's not very long and for history buffs who also enjoy watching the tv show, prepare to be blown away because as you read you realize that the world of game of thrones is more based after our world than we imagined. First Men who crossed a straight path of land "that bridged the narrow sea and connected the eastern lands with the land in which the children and the giants lived" sounds a hell of a lot like the straight of Bering and then the Andals coming to Westeros and with their new customs sound like the Anglo-Saxons and many characters that we already know and love we find who they are based on after reading about their mini biographies and also many important events. But the biggest boon is the Iron Islands. As a fan of crazy, gothic and dark science fiction stories like HP Lovecraft who inspired many contemporary horror writers like Anne Rice, Stephen King and movie makers like O'Bannon and Ridley Scott; we find that the Iron Islanders were fierce and mighty warriors with customs much like the Norsemen and Vikings of taking salt wives, and that their drowned god or "deep ones" (who are rumored to be the ones behind the construction of hightower in the Reach) are much like the Chthulhu (sorry if I spelled that wrong) and the way they are described are very scary! And we also learn more regarding the Lannisters, for one that you should have never messed with the late Tywin Lannister or he will kill you and your entire family and second that their castle is enormous! It's considered the biggest one in Westeros and it is a shame we haven't seen it in the series because then viewers would see why the Lannisters are truly power, it's not just their men at arms but their great castle which is on top of a great mountain of endless gold mines. And third, we learn about other continents and how their laws in customs are more progressive than those in Westeros. I fell in love with the Summer Isles (Princess Xanda Qo driving the slavers away and subsequent generations have done the same ever since and the isles is overall amazing, and even when they fight they won't take slaves or torture or hurt others as they do in Westeros or other parts of the world and they have a very open attitude regarding sex with their worship of the god and goddess of love, beauty and fertility) and besides Dorne (which we learned a lot from them, and the great union of the awesome Nymeria and Prince Martell) it is now my favorite place on Westeros.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 24, 2014 by Kindle Customer