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The Silk Roads A New History of the World
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Product details
Published | 11 Aug 2016 |
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Format | Paperback |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 736 |
ISBN | 9781408839997 |
Imprint | Bloomsbury Paperbacks |
Illustrations | 2 x 8pp colour plates |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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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 Times
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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
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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
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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
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The most illuminating book of the year . . . A healthy antidote to Eurocentric accounts of history
Books of the Year, Times Literary Supplement
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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