The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

by Peter Frankopan

Book Overview

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - Far more than a history of the Silk Roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next.

"A rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world." --The Wall Street Journal

From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101912375
• ISBN13: 9781101912379
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 1.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Liberal Bias

More a history of trade with the East as opposed to a history of the silk road. Filled with comtempt for Western history and worship of the Eastern. An entitled liberal popping off at his own people.