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    The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World

    Written by Peter Frankopan

    Narrated by Leighton Pugh

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    About this audiobook

    From the best-selling author of The Silk Roads comes a new, timely, and visionary audiobook about the dramatic and profound changes our world is undergoing right now — as seen from the perspective of the rising powers of the East.

    "All roads used to lead to Rome. Now they lead to Beijing." So argues Peter Frankopan in this revelatory audiobook.

    In the age of Brexit and Trump, the West is buffeted by the tides of isolationism and fragmentation. Yet to the East, this is a moment of optimism as a new network of relationships takes shape along the ancient trade routes.

    In The New Silk Roads, Peter Frankopan takes us on an eye-opening journey through the region, from China's breathtaking infrastructure investments to the flood of trade deals among Central Asian republics to the growing rapprochement between Turkey and Russia. This important audiobook asks us to put aside our preconceptions and see the world from a new — and ultimately hopeful — perspective.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMar 26, 2019
    ISBN9780593105498
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    The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
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    Peter Frankopan

    Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, published by Bloomsbury in 2015, was a No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and remained in the top 10 for nine months after publication. It was named one of the 'Books of the Decade' 2010–2020 by the Sunday Times. The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World was published by Bloomsbury in 2018 and won the Human Sciences prize of the Carical Foundation in 2019.

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