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The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

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Peter Frankopan

 

Breathtaking and addictively readable – History Book of the Year ― Daily Telegraph

 

 

Many books have been written which claim to be “A New History of the World”. This one fully deserves the title…It is difficult, in a short review, to do justice to a book so ambitious, so detailed and so fascinating as this one — Gerald DeGroot ― The Times

 

 

The author’s gift for vividness is reminiscent of Jan Morris, while his command of revealing facts or fancies is not far short of Gibbon’s — Felipe Fernández Armesto ― Literary Review

 

 

A book that roves as widely as the geography it describes, encompassing worlds as far removed as those of Herodotus and Saddam Hussein, Hammurabi and Hitler…It is a tribute to Frankopan’s scholarship and mastery of sources in multiple languages that he is as sure-footed on the ancient world as he is on the medieval and modern — Justin Marozzi ― The Sunday Times

 

 

Splendid … tightly researched … invigorating and profound [with] enough storytelling to excite the reader and enough fresh scholarship to satisfy the intellect…charismatic and essential — Dr Bettany Hughes ― Daily Telegraph

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The No. 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller – a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the re-emerging east. ?Magnificent? Sunday Times ?Immensely entertaining … so ambitious, so detailed, so fascinating’ The Times For centuries, fame and fortune were to be found in the west ? in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of riches and adventure. Sweeping right across Central Asia and deep into China and India, a region that once took centre stage is again rising to dominate global politics, commerce and culture. A major reassessment of world history, The Silk Roads is a dazzling exploration of the forces that have driven the rise and fall of empires, determined the flow of ideas and goods and are now heralding a new dawn in international affairs.
 

About the Author

Peter Frankopan is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director the Centre for Byzantine Research at Oxford University. He took a First in History and was Schiff Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, before completing his doctorate at Oxford, where he was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College. He has lectured at leading universities all over the world, including Cambridge, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, NYU, King’s College London and the Institute of Historical Research. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in 2009 and The First Crusade was published in 2012.
 

Book Specifications

Title: The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Author: Peter Frankopan
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 656
Weight: 449g
Published Year: 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781408883136
Dimensions: 20.3 x 25.4 x 4.7 cm
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