The Silk Roads: A New History of the World convenient pull-out Edinburgh map (included

convenient pull-out Edinburgh map (included in print version)

often funny travelogue encompassing the width of much of the British Isles” (GolfWeek)

A gruelling pan-American trek

'Thoroughly enjoyable as well as being informative

In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell

The Silk Roads: A New History of the World convenient pull-out Edinburgh map (includedFar 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. From the Middle East and its political instability to China and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the Balkans across the steppe and South Asia has been thrust into the global spotlight in recent years. Frankopan teaches us that to understand