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Bloomsbury presents The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan read by Mike Grady
The No 1 Sunday Times and international bestseller a major reassessment of world history in light of the economic and political renaissance in the reemerging east
For centuries fame and fortune was to be found in the west in the New World of the Americas Today it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India is taking centre stage in international politics commerce and culture and is shaping the modern world
This region the true centre of the earth is obscure to many in the Englishspeaking world Yet this is where civilization itself began where the worlds great religions were born and took root The Silk Roads were no exotic series of connections but networks that linked continents and oceans together Along them flowed ideas goods disease and death This was where empires were won and where they were lost As a new era emerges the patterns of exchange are mirroring those that have crisscrossed Asia for millennia The Silk Roads are rising again
A major reassessment of world history The Silk Roads is an important account of the forces that have shaped the global economy and the political renaissance in the reemerging east
Brilliant and fearlessly wideranging Guardian Books of the Year
Breathtaking and addictively readable Daily Telegraph History Book of the Year
Dazzlingly good Evening Standard
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