From the author of the phenomenal bestselling The Silk Roads comes a spectacular illustrated retelling. Embark on an extraordinary journey in this magnificent new history of the world, now available for readers to enjoy in this stunning paperback edition
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford
University where he is also Senior Research Fellow at Worcester
College. He took a First in History and was Schiff Scholar at Jesus
College, Cambridge, before completing his doctorate at Oxford,
where he was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College. He has
lectured all over the world, including at Harvard, Yale, Princeton,
Shanghai, Beijing, Dubai, Lahore, Astana, the UN and UNICEF. His
revised translation of The Alexiad by Anna Komnene was published in
2009 and The First Crusade: The Call from the East was published in
2012. He is the author of The First Crusade: The Call from the East
(2012), and the international bestsellers The Silk Roads: A New
History of the World (2015) and The New Silk Roads: The Present and
Future of the World (2018).
Neil Packer has illustrated many adult and children’s titles,
including The Name of the Rose, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The
Iliad and The Odyssey and has worked on numerous titles for the
Folio Society. His work has been exhibited in the British Museum,
the British Library and the Royal Academy. He has also been
longlisted for the CILIP Carnegie medal.
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