Everything you need to know about the present and future of the world from Sunday Times bestselling author of The Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University where is also Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director the Centre for Byzantine Research. He was Schiff Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, and was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in 2009 and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World was published in 2015.
Many books have been written that claim to be “A New History of the
World”. This one fully deserves the title…so ambitious, so detailed
and so fascinating
*The Times*
Brilliant and fearless … This is history on a grand scale
*Praise for 'The Silk Roads', William Dalrymple*
This invigorating and profound book has enough storytelling to
excite the reader and enough fresh scholarship to satisfy the
intellect
*Praise for 'The Silk Roads', Bettany Hughes*
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