Book review:
The Silk Roads
A New History of the World
by Peter Frankopan
Yes please!
The title and the book’s intention, to offer a global perspective, were intriguing to me. Though not a history fan, it is increasingly clear that it is no help to see history from your own perspective because it is blinkered, full of self-serving interpretation and fails to expose the reality of the past. This book offers a big picture perspective.
Continue reading The Silk Roads: Two and a half millennia telling us to stop fighting.