The Silk Roads
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The Silk Roads
| Full title | The Silk Roads: A New History of the World |
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| Author | Peter Frankopan |
| Published | 2015 |
| Pages | 636 |
| Recommended | 4 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Frankopan recentres world history on the land bridge between East and West — Persia, Central Asia, the steppe — from antiquity to the present. A deliberate correction to the Atlantic-facing default, useful precisely because it reads the same events from a different centre. |
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at the BYU Store, Provo — September 2023 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at Barnes & Noble at South Towne, Sandy — May 2025 (Books photo album)
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Spotted at San Mateo Public Library — August 2026 (Books photo album)
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A reply to @typesfast — named in answer to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in a thread on X, June 2025. The full recovered list lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Globalization · Geopolitics — the frame.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.