![]() ![]() The story starts in Westeros with men from the Night’s Watch following a trail of wildlings. ![]() ![]() The world has three continents and many islands: the thinner and taller Westeros to the west, the much wider Essos to the east, and Sothoryos to the south of Essos. From the wild grasses of the Summer Sea to the tall ghost grasses of the Shadow Lands to the placid rivers and rolling hills of Norvos to the manticores in the islands of the Jade Sea and basilisks in the jungles of the Yi Ti–it is easy to become mesmerized by the wilderness alone, which author George RR Martin paints brightly. A Song of Ice and Fire is a novel series that explodes with ecological diversity in the world, which, compared to our planet today, intones a wilder and younger version of our own beginnings–from the tall cedars, gardens, and birds of Riverrun to the sacred weirwoods and mighty oaks of Winterfell to the Haunted Forest and icy winterlands north of the Wall to the thirty six types of flowers Arya finds on her way to King’s Landing. ![]()
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