Difference between revisions of "The Lands of Ice and Fire"

From A Wiki of Ice and Fire
Jump to: navigation, search
m
m (Content)
Line 46: Line 46:
 
* The Land of the Shrykes
 
* The Land of the Shrykes
 
* The Great Sand Sea
 
* The Great Sand Sea
 +
* The Grey Waste
 
* The Howling Hills
 
* The Howling Hills
 
* The Bleeding Sea
 
* The Bleeding Sea
 
* The City of the Winged Men
 
* The City of the Winged Men
* The ruined city of Stygia
+
* The ruined city of Stygai
 +
* Trader Town
 +
* Vaes Jini
 +
* The Shrinking Sea
 +
* The Poison Sea
 
* The Bone Mountains  
 
* The Bone Mountains  
  

Revision as of 00:58, 8 April 2013

The Lands of Ice and Fire
The Lands of Ice and Fire cover.jpg
Language English
Publisher Bantam Books (US)
HarperCollins Voyager (UK)
Released 30 October, 2012
Media Type Boxed collection
Pages 12 posters
ISBN ISBN 0345538544

The Lands of Ice and Fire is a boxed collection of twelve A Song of Ice and Fire map posters, stretching from Westeros to Asshai. It is illustrated by cartographer Jonathan Roberts of the Fantastic Maps blog, which can give a clue to the map quality. The collection came out in the US from Bantam Books on 30 October 2012[1] and in the UK from HarperCollins Voyager on 08 November 2012.


Content

The 12 included maps are: [1]

Some of the places the maps depict were previously not mentioned in canon, including:[2]

  • The continent of Ulthos
  • The Cities of the Bloodless Men
  • The Thousand Islands
  • The Five Forts
  • Bonetown
  • The Land of the Shrykes
  • The Great Sand Sea
  • The Grey Waste
  • The Howling Hills
  • The Bleeding Sea
  • The City of the Winged Men
  • The ruined city of Stygai
  • Trader Town
  • Vaes Jini
  • The Shrinking Sea
  • The Poison Sea
  • The Bone Mountains

Three routes penetrate the Bone Mountains. They connect the Dothraki Sea and Qarth with the unknown and exotic lands to the East:

  • The Steel Road
  • The Stone Road
  • The Sand Road

Purpose

George R. R. Martin has stated that the maps are not meant to be perfect, especially the map of the known world. They don't show everything, and Martin has said "The idea was to do something representing the lands and seas of which, say, a maester of the Citadel might be aware... and while the maesters know more about Asshai and the lands beyond than a medieval monk knew about Cathay, distance remains a factor, and past a certain point legends and myths will creep here. Here there be winged men, and such." [3]

See also

References and Notes