The World of Ice and Fire: The Untold History of the World of A Game of Thrones

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

In a collaboration that's been years in the making, George R.R. Martin has teamed with Elio M. Garcia, Jr. and Linda Antonsson - the founders of the renowned fan site Westeros.org - perhaps the only people who know this world almost as well as its visionary creator. George R.R. Martin is the author of fifteen novels and novellas, including five volumes of A Song of Ice and Fire, several collections of short stories, as well as numerous screenplays for television drama and feature films. Dubbed 'the American Tolkien', George R.R. Martin has won numerous awards including the World Fantasy Lifetime Achievement Award. He is an Executive Producer of HBO's Emmy Award-winning GAME OF THRONES, which is based on his A Song of Ice and Fire series. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.