Silk Roads

Sick and tired of a european-centric view of history that brushes the rest of the world under the carpet? Well, no longer do you have to endure that. With wonderfully (and indeed, sometimes painfully) dense writing, Peter Frankopan takes you on a whislestop tour of the Persians, the Greeks, the Chinese, etc. All of it revolving around one of the most important single trade routes in all of human history.

on HN, 2018

For readers who have implicitly come to believe that the center of the world has always been Western Europe (I had), this book will greatly shift your perspective (Eastward). I've never learned so much from a book, and damn is it entertainingly written.

on HN, 2017

It kinda feels like an alternate history fantasy novel, but it's actually real. It tells the history of the world, but from a central asian perspective.

on HN, 2023

Recommend The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan for a less western centric view of the east and west’s intermingled histories

on HN, 2022

Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads - world history from an Asiacentric perspective.

on HN, 2017