The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of Westeros and the Game of Thrones (Song of Ice & Fire) (Hardcover)【2017】by George R.R. Martin (Author), et al. [1865] Hardcover – January 1, 2017

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.

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!

Any GOT fan would love this gift absolutely love the info packed in these pages

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.

Everything from the artwork, to the facts! Amazing job

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.

Great book for the GoT enthusiast

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. weaklooking 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,

This book is simply stunning!! It tells the history of the seven kingdoms and has a lot of extra information. It has beautiful illustrations giving us a further insight into how George RR Martin envisaged the world. I though one story line in particular was very carefully explained however, without giving away spoilers to the particular storyline where the TV show has oven taken the books. I think many may know to what I refer, however I think this detail is important for people who are waiting for next book and haven't seen the TV show and don't want spoilers. This has to be one of the nicest books I've ever bought. It's simply stunning. I would 100% recommend it.

Being honest I didn't read every section of this. I read everything up to the fall of the Targaryans, then picked and choose a few items from the sections on each of the main areas of Westeros and then read pretty much most of the bits outside of Westeros. It was pretty much what I expected. Quite dry in places and did read like a broad scope history book, lots of names, dates and battles with not too much standing out. I really did enjoy the first section quite a lot and it cleared a lot of things up in my head about the recent history, though obviously the really good stuff is in the books (and show now).Definitely not for everybody but it was an interesting enough read and the format lends itself to skipping sections that you're not interested in. I primarily read it as a kind of primer for the last season of the show and it did well there. The artwork is amazing and I'm glad I bought it just for that.

I will be honest, I haven’t yet got around to reading the GOT books (although my partner does have the first few) so am unable to benchmark if it falls in line with these but do enjoy the HBO series.As an avid viewer I had plenty of questions surrounding the history of GOT and this is perfect to answer those. The book is packed with a full in-depth history of the whole GOT world, timelines, blood lines, character and event histories, information about all the houses and much much more.This will provide you with a full level of detail surrounding the GOT world thousands of years prior to A Song of Fire and Ice. Its beautifully illustrated and put together and I would consider it a highly recommended book for those that want a little more substance behind the current story.

As someone who is up to date with the ASOIAF, I really needed my fix to keep me going until Winds of Winter! As great as the TV show is, you'll just never get the same amount of character/story depth as you get with the books. So if, like me, you were interested in learning more about the First Men, the Valeria and The Doom Of all the way up to ancient families and world beyond Westeros and Essos, then this was just brilliant.On a side note, the artwork alone in this was just incredible, given the option, I'd hang half of the pages as tapestries on my wall!I wasn't sure whether to just download the kindle version for sake of ease, or to pay a little more and get the hardback version. In the end I went for the physical copy, just because I prefer that sort of thing, and I can tell you, IT'S WORTH IT.The quality of the book itself surpassed my expectations and to actually look at the pictures in front of me, as oppose to seeing them on my tablet, was just so worth it! The book is quite big too, which means that you can really see the detail, compared to seeing a digital version which just won;t have the same...aura.If you're a fan of the expanded world, trust me, this is a really interesting read.PS. If you get the physical version, you can take off the cover and there's an even cooler one underneath, but I'll let you see that for yourself!

A few issues with this book, one is the size that it is where it could have been smaller, the type is size 10 so on a full page of double column on made to look old paper with a bit of gloss to it, makes it difficult to read in certain lights, so this is better read outside in natural light to stop the glare. In all, I think the illustrations albeit beautiful could have been smaller and still be beautiful. Not of George R.R. Martin usual quality. And is not enjoyable to read.