The Silk Roads

by Peter Frankopan
Illustrated by Neil Packer
Published by Bloomsbury
ISBN 9781526623560

This maybe the children's edition, but it is an outstanding book to read and learn about the history of this extraordinary route for both adults and children to read together. The illustrations are superb, not what we expect in a book for children. They are remarkable and compliment the content perfectly, inspiring the imagination, making this a book to treasure, include in a home library and pass down to future generations.

Aside from the outstanding production, it is fascinating to read the history from ancient times to present day, over eighteen chapters. This is a book to engage children who are curious about history and other cultures and the influence on our world. It includes world maps as we know it today and of the ancient world. There are some extraordinary facts included that will astound some readers.

Aside from the outstanding production, it is fascinating to read the history from ancient times to present day, over eighteen chapters. This is a book to engage children who are curious about history and other cultures and the influence on our world. It includes world maps as we know it today and of the ancient world.

There are some extraordinary facts included that will astound some readers.

Author, Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University where he is also Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College and Director at the Centre for Byzantine Research. He was Schiff Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, and Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has been Stanley J. Seeger Fellow at Princeton, Scaliger Visiting Professor at Leiden and Presidential Scholar at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. His revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published by Penguin Classics in 2009. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East (2012) and The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015).