The Silk Roads Paperback English by Peter Frankopan - 01/06/2016

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ISBN 13: 9781408839997
ISBN 10: 1408839997
Book Subtitle: A New History of the World
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Book Description: Silk Roads
Editorial Review: 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 2015-08-08) 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 Sunday Times 2015-08-09) My 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 Observer) The most illuminating book of the year ... A healthy antidote to Eurocentric accounts of history (Books of the Year Times Literary Supplement) Splendid ... 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 2015-08-15) A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world (Wall Street Journal) Dazzlingly good (Evening Standard) Based on astonishingly wide and deep reading and in all areas draws on the latest research... It is full of vivid and recondite details (Independent 2015-08-15) Full of intriguing insights and fascinating details (Observer) With 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 Post) This 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 Review) Monumental.prodigious.astonishing. 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 Fair) An 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."... Frankopan's book will be indispensable to anyone who wants to make sense of this union of past and present (Dallas Morning News)
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.
Language: English
Author: Peter Frankopan
Publication Date: 01/06/2016