The Silk Roads appears in 9 book lists

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The Silk Roads appears in 9 book lists on Shepherd.

The best books that will challenge what you thought you knew about history

Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book cover of Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Book cover of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Book cover of The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power Book cover of Why the Allies Won

The best book on how the nomadic peoples enriched and shaped civilizations across Eurasia (from their perspective)

Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book cover of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World Book cover of Cotton, Climate, and Camels in Early Islamic Iran: A Moment in World History Book cover of The Perilous Frontier: Nomadic Empires and China, 221 BC to AD 1757 Book cover of The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

The best books about the big ideas that changed our world

Book cover of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Book cover of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History Book cover of The Malay Archipelago Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

The best books to change discussions about the modern Middle East

Book cover of Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East Book cover of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire Book cover of The World's Banker 1849-1999 Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book cover of A Peace to End All Peace: The Fall of the Ottoman Empire and the Creation of the Modern Middle East

The best books about why Portugal is weird

Book cover of Unsheltered Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book cover of Hunting Midnight Book cover of Portugal: The Impossible Revolution? Book cover of Salazar: The Dictator Who Refused to Die

The best books that will make us rethink global history

Book cover of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years Book cover of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book cover of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States Book cover of The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

The best books about the history we never learned

Book cover of 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Book cover of War at the End of the World: Douglas MacArthur and the Forgotten Fight For New Guinea, 1942-1945 Book cover of The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic That Shaped Our History Book cover of Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

The best books to discover the Silk Road

Book cover of The Dead Wander in the Desert Book cover of A New Diwan Book cover of The Devils' Dance Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book cover of Red Sands: Reportage and Recipes Through Central Asia, from Hinterland to Heartland

The best books on navigating an unstable world

Book cover of This Is Shakespeare Book cover of Letters to a Young Muslim Book cover of Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln Book cover of The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Book cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

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Book cover of Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures Book cover of Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States Book cover of Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World Book cover of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World Book cover of Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Book cover of The Anarchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire

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