![]() ![]() ![]() George explains that this isn’t an atlas in fact, it’s “not an actual book at all, but a book-shaped box containing a whole bunch of gorgeous, glossy, fold-out maps of Westeros, Essos, and the lands and seas from A Song of Ice and Fire.” (I hadn’t been sure.) Among the maps is an eagerly anticipated world map. Martin‘s Westeros, the setting for A Game of Thrones and its sequels. Today is the release date (in North America) for The Lands of Ice and Fire, a book (sort of) that contains maps of George R. Tags fantasy maps, Game of Thrones, Westeros Now Out: The Lands of Ice and Fire.( Some Amazon reviewers have expressed concern about wear and tear from folding and unfolding the maps bear that in mind.)Ĭontinue reading “Review: The Lands of Ice and Fire” → Categories Product Reviews As fantasy maps go, this is a lavish production-a long way from the two-colour atlases we’ve seen for other imaginary worlds. Map of game of thrones beyond the wall full#Each map is 24 by 30 inches, single sided, in full colour, and on glossy paper, the kind you can see your fingerprints on. Open the box and you see two sleeves containing six maps apiece. George himself describes it as “a book-shaped box containing a whole bunch of gorgeous, glossy, fold-out maps of Westeros, Essos, and the lands and seas from A Song of Ice and Fire.” There is no text other than on a single-page introduction. You should know what you’re getting when you buy this. Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series, executed by the fantasy cartographer Jonathan Roberts. The Lands of Ice and Fire, which came out last month, is a collection of maps of the lands of George R. Tags fantasy maps, Westeros Fantasy Maps: Middle-earth vs.Of course, if your fantasy world is flat instead of round, you don’t have this problem. Trying to circle the square, so to speak, leads to complications, as Whitehead points out on his Atlas of Ice and Fire blog. These are all in perfect scale to one another, which is not really possible when you look at the maps as a representation of what the planet actually looks like. On his maps of Westeros, the Wall is 300 miles long but the distance between Deepwood Motte and Winterfell (hundreds of miles to the south) is also said to be 300 miles long and the south coast of Westeros-3,000 miles south of the Wall!-is said to be 1,200 miles long. Martin has not really taken projection into account at all. Westeros is not one of them, “because the maps of the North and the lands beyond the Wall need to be adjusted so they work on a globe.” Think of it as sort of a Mercator problem in reverse: imagining a flat map rather than a round world: the flat map’s lack of distortion is the issue.Īs discussed before, in creating the maps of Westeros and Essos for A Song of Ice and Fire, George R. Adam Whitehead has been trying it out with fantasy maps. Map to Globe is an online tool that allows you to transfer a flat map onto a globe. ![]()
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