--- product_id: 47010601 title: "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]" price: "670.58 DT" currency: TND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.tn/products/47010601-the-world-of-ice-and-fire-the-untold-history-westeros store_origin: TN region: Tunisia --- # 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] **Price:** 670.58 DT **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** 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. 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García, Jr. and Linda Antonsson, has written a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms, featuring the epic battles, bitter rivalries, and daring rebellions that lead up to the events in the bestselling A Song of Ice and Fire series. Collected within this volume is the accumulated knowledge, scholarly speculation, and inherited folk tales of maesters and septons, maegi and singers, including over 170 full-colour illustrations and maps, family trees for the Houses Stark, Lannister and Targaryen, and in-depth explanations of the history and culture of Westeros. This is the definitive companion volume to George R.R. Martin’s dazzlingly conceived universe; THE WORLD OF ICE AND FIRE is indeed proof that the pen is mightier than a storm of swords. Review: One of the Most Immersive Companion Books Ever Created - The World of Ice & Fire is far more than a simple companion guide to Game of Thrones or A Song of Ice and Fire. It feels less like reading a reference book and more like uncovering an actual historical archive from another world. What makes the experience so remarkable is the sheer level of immersion. Every kingdom, war, bloodline, religion, and political struggle is presented with the kind of detail usually reserved for real-world history. The writing constantly gives the impression that Westeros existed long before the reader arrived and will continue long after the current story ends. That depth is what separates George R. R. Martin’s worldbuilding from so much modern fantasy. The artwork throughout the book is phenomenal and adds enormously to the experience. Instead of simply illustrating scenes from the novels, the art helps sell the illusion that you are studying ancient maps, royal portraits, battlefield records, and lost histories. Flipping through the pages genuinely feels like exploring a forbidden library somewhere deep within the Citadel. What impressed me most is how alive the world feels outside of the main characters readers already know. Entire civilizations, dynasties, and catastrophes are explored in ways that make Westeros feel impossibly large and layered. Some sections read like myth, others like brutal medieval history, and others like political propaganda written by unreliable historians. That ambiguity makes the world feel even more authentic. The book also deepens the experience of reading the main series because it reveals how much history shapes the fears, traditions, grudges, and ambitions of every major house. Nothing in Westeros exists in isolation. Every conflict feels connected to centuries of forgotten decisions and buried violence. And perhaps most importantly, the book captures something many fictional encyclopedias fail to achieve: atmosphere. You don’t simply learn facts while reading it. You feel transported into the world itself. Overall, The World of Ice & Fire is one of the most immersive fantasy companion books ever created. Whether you’re a longtime fan of Westeros or someone fascinated by deep fictional history and worldbuilding, this is the kind of book that makes a fictional setting feel startlingly real. Review: beautiful work - 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 desertcart 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, ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 11,647 Reviews | ## Images ![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] - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51vTDBfrGFL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Language, Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ One of the Most Immersive Companion Books Ever Created *by B***C on May 7, 2026* The World of Ice & Fire is far more than a simple companion guide to Game of Thrones or A Song of Ice and Fire. It feels less like reading a reference book and more like uncovering an actual historical archive from another world. What makes the experience so remarkable is the sheer level of immersion. Every kingdom, war, bloodline, religion, and political struggle is presented with the kind of detail usually reserved for real-world history. The writing constantly gives the impression that Westeros existed long before the reader arrived and will continue long after the current story ends. That depth is what separates George R. R. Martin’s worldbuilding from so much modern fantasy. The artwork throughout the book is phenomenal and adds enormously to the experience. Instead of simply illustrating scenes from the novels, the art helps sell the illusion that you are studying ancient maps, royal portraits, battlefield records, and lost histories. Flipping through the pages genuinely feels like exploring a forbidden library somewhere deep within the Citadel. What impressed me most is how alive the world feels outside of the main characters readers already know. Entire civilizations, dynasties, and catastrophes are explored in ways that make Westeros feel impossibly large and layered. Some sections read like myth, others like brutal medieval history, and others like political propaganda written by unreliable historians. That ambiguity makes the world feel even more authentic. The book also deepens the experience of reading the main series because it reveals how much history shapes the fears, traditions, grudges, and ambitions of every major house. Nothing in Westeros exists in isolation. Every conflict feels connected to centuries of forgotten decisions and buried violence. And perhaps most importantly, the book captures something many fictional encyclopedias fail to achieve: atmosphere. You don’t simply learn facts while reading it. You feel transported into the world itself. Overall, The World of Ice & Fire is one of the most immersive fantasy companion books ever created. Whether you’re a longtime fan of Westeros or someone fascinated by deep fictional history and worldbuilding, this is the kind of book that makes a fictional setting feel startlingly real. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ beautiful work *by A***O on November 28, 2016* 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, ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Wonderful Fantasy Compendium to ASOI&F *by W***H on December 29, 2014* This is a welcome addition to the A Song of Ice and Fire and HBO’s Game of Thrones fantasy series. This beautifully illustrated volume is a comprehensive history of the Seven Kingdoms and beyond. This book adds depth and richness to the entire ASOIAF universe and transports the reader there with detailed accounts of long ago tales which continue to reverberate throughout the World of Ice and Fire. A must have for any fan of the ASOIAF series. George R. R. Martin has meticulously crafted an original and complex world for his fantasy master piece, and this book is a wonderful exploration of that world. An absolutely fantastic addition to my library. One of the best fantasy reference / companion books that I've ever read. Extraordinary world building and lavish illustrations. In the realm of fiction it is not easy to create such a vivid and complex fictional history which is occupied by such original characters, political intrigue and storylines that could only take place within the context of this fully developed world. I was looking for a good book to read while I awaited George R. R. Martin's next book in the A Song of Ice and Fire series and I must say, I wasn't the slightest bit disappointed. This will tide me over until The Winds of Winter is released. Thank you George, Elio and Linda. Bottomline, this is a wonderful fantasy compendium that just pulls you in from the very first page. It's a history of the known world of the A Song of Ice and Fire saga as recorded by a Maester of the Citadel for King Tommen. Therefore, this tome is an in-world history textbook, limited in scope, accuracy and gaps in knowledge of their world and past critical events. This is not a complete history of the known world written from an omniscient point of view. The information contained in this tome is limited to what a Maester of the time might be able to research, therefore I understand why there are gaps in the historical narrative, which mirrors our own historical narrative in some parts of out past. The rice detail of the text and the lavish illustrations contribute greatly to the world building of the ASOIAF universe. The world building is so complete and detailed that you sometimes feel as if you are actually reading historical fiction, not a fantasy. What is fascinating and true to life is the way the characters shape the world around them but at the same time their world shapes them. Above all this is a great read which is sure to bring you hours of pure unadulterated escapism. I don't usually write reviews but I saw so many negative reviews stating GRRM didn't write or have any part in creating this book. I just want to point out that the blurb on Amazon states, "100% all-new material, more than half of which Martin wrote specifically for this book." If that's not enough to convince you, GRRM even confirmed this on his blog: "Ah. actually, it was with Elio and Linda, sure, but there are tens of thousands of my words in there this "not written by GRRM" is misinformation." I'm not terribly sure why some critics and reviewers are bashing the writing style or quality of this book. I love the way this book is written. It is what it's advertised to be, it Is a know algae of the day history book of the A Song of Ice and Fire universe and I absolutely love it. 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