The New Silk Roads

By Peter Frankopan,

Book cover of The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

Book description

From the Sunday Times and internationally bestselling author of The Silk Roads: everything you need to know about the present and future of the world 'Masterly mapping out of a new world order' Evening Standard 'Frankopan is a brilliant guide to terra incognita' The Times The New Silk Roads -…

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1 author picked The New Silk Roads as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This is the best account of whole sweep of world history – the invasions, the migrations, the trade routes, the religious wars, and the making and unmaking of empires.

There’s no better book on how mankind traversed the globe and the lessons learnt along the way. 

I loved the book because it made me think about the long view of history and understand the economic and social forces beyond a cheap headline or short-sighted analysis that we see in current affairs today.


Like it or not, since the dawn of time, mankind has been migrating, discovering, and trading, despite the…

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