The Silk Roads A New History of the World, Paperback Book, By: Peter Frankopan

The axis of history writing seemed to shift east with Frankopan's sweeping history which placed the Silk Road at the very centre of world events Books of the Decade Sunday TimesMany books have been written which claim to be A New History of the World. This one fully deserves the titleIt is difficult in a short to do justice to a book so ambitious so detailed and so fascinating as this one Gerald DeGroot The Times Published On: 2015-08-08A book that roves as widely as the geography it describes encompassing worlds as far removed as those of Herodotus and Saddam Hussein Hammurabi and HitlerIt is a tribute to Frankopans 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 Sunday Times Published On: 2015-08-09My book of the year: history on a grand scale with a sweep of ambition that is rare ... A remarkable book on many levels and one that anyone would have been proud to write: a proper historical epic of dazzling range ambition and achievement William Dalrymple ObserverThe most illuminating book of the year ... A healthy antidote to Eurocentric accounts of history Books of the Year Times Literary SupplementSplendid ... tightly researched ... invigorating and profound with enough storytelling to excite the reader and enough fresh scholarship to satisfy the intellect...charismatic and essential Bettany Hughes Daily Telegraph Published On: 2015-08-15A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world Wall Street JournalDazzlingly good Evening StandardBased on astonishingly wide and deep reading and in all areas draws on the latest research... It is full of vivid and recondite details Independent Published On: 2015-08-15Full of intriguing insights and fascinating details ObserverWith extraordinary erudition and a vivid style he takes us on a dazzling tour of these parts from the rise of the first empires right through to the present Open (Weekly)Beautifully constructed a terrific and exhilarating read and a new perspective on world history Averil Cameron History Today. As well-written entertaining disturbing and exciting as a detective story Svenska Dagbladet A dazzling piece of historical writing South China Morning PostThis book lives up to its claim to be a new history of the world because of its geopolitical paradigm shift He is a Herodotus of the twenty first century Irish Left Monumentalprodigiousastonishing. Frankopan is an exhilarating companion for the journey along the routes which conveyed silk slaves ideas religion and disease and around which today may hang the destiny of the world Vanity FairAn exceptional storyteller Frankopan does a superb job of explaining the history that has led to this modern era of new Silk Roads running across the spine of Asia.... Frankopans book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to make sense of this union of past and present Dallas Morning NewsSumptuous intriguing and surprising Sir Paddy Ashdown A big book like this would have taken the whole year to read if I had followed up every reference that piqued my interest Readers' Books of the Year 2016 Guardian About the Author: Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University where he is also Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College and Director at the Centre for Byzantine Research. He was Schiff Scholar at Jesus College Cambridge and Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College Oxford. He has been Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton Scaliger Visiting Professor at Leiden and Presidential Scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published by Penguin Classics in 2009. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East (2012) and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015).