The Silk Roads

About the book

Presented in beautifully opulent gold-blocked cover designs, drawing on patterns and motifs from Eastern art, the Folio edition of The Silk Roads is lavishly illustrated. Each of the two volumes features 32 pages of colour and black-and-white images. They include treasures traded and looted – Incan gold, Benin bronzes and vivid Chinese silk damask – alongside paintings, manuscripts and miniatures, from medieval Baghdad to renaissance Venice. The clash of faiths is represented in ornately tiled minarets, marble reliefs of Christian saints and colossal carved Buddhas. The images follow Peter Frankopan’s narrative up to the present day, with the past 100 years captured in Soviet-era posters, magazine covers and news photography. In a new introduction, he reflects on recent events, suggesting that the invasion of Ukraine, the effects of climate change and the race for natural resources will ensure the countries of the Silk Roads remain critical to global geopolitics.

About the book

Presented in beautifully opulent gold-blocked cover designs, drawing on patterns and motifs from Eastern art, the Folio edition of The Silk Roads is lavishly illustrated. Each of the two volumes features 32 pages of colour and black-and-white images. They include treasures traded and looted – Incan gold, Benin bronzes and vivid Chinese silk damask – alongside paintings, manuscripts and miniatures, from medieval Baghdad to renaissance Venice. The clash of faiths is represented in ornately tiled minarets, marble reliefs of Christian saints and colossal carved Buddhas. The images follow Peter Frankopan’s narrative up to the present day, with the past 100 years captured in Soviet-era posters, magazine covers and news photography. In a new introduction, he reflects on recent events, suggesting that the invasion of Ukraine, the effects of climate change and the race for natural resources will ensure the countries of the Silk Roads remain critical to global geopolitics.

About the book

Presented in beautifully opulent gold-blocked cover designs, drawing on patterns and motifs from Eastern art, the Folio edition of The Silk Roads is lavishly illustrated. Each of the two volumes features 32 pages of colour and black-and-white images. They include treasures traded and looted – Incan gold, Benin bronzes and vivid Chinese silk damask – alongside paintings, manuscripts and miniatures, from medieval Baghdad to renaissance Venice. The clash of faiths is represented in ornately tiled minarets, marble reliefs of Christian saints and colossal carved Buddhas. The images follow Peter Frankopan’s narrative up to the present day, with the past 100 years captured in Soviet-era posters, magazine covers and news photography. In a new introduction, he reflects on recent events, suggesting that the invasion of Ukraine, the effects of climate change and the race for natural resources will ensure the countries of the Silk Roads remain critical to global geopolitics.

About the book

Presented in beautifully opulent gold-blocked cover designs, drawing on patterns and motifs from Eastern art, the Folio edition of The Silk Roads is lavishly illustrated. Each of the two volumes features 32 pages of colour and black-and-white images. They include treasures traded and looted – Incan gold, Benin bronzes and vivid Chinese silk damask – alongside paintings, manuscripts and miniatures, from medieval Baghdad to renaissance Venice. The clash of faiths is represented in ornately tiled minarets, marble reliefs of Christian saints and colossal carved Buddhas. The images follow Peter Frankopan’s narrative up to the present day, with the past 100 years captured in Soviet-era posters, magazine covers and news photography. In a new introduction, he reflects on recent events, suggesting that the invasion of Ukraine, the effects of climate change and the race for natural resources will ensure the countries of the Silk Roads remain critical to global geopolitics.

About the book

Presented in beautifully opulent gold-blocked cover designs, drawing on patterns and motifs from Eastern art, the Folio edition of The Silk Roads is lavishly illustrated. Each of the two volumes features 32 pages of colour and black-and-white images. They include treasures traded and looted – Incan gold, Benin bronzes and vivid Chinese silk damask – alongside paintings, manuscripts and miniatures, from medieval Baghdad to renaissance Venice. The clash of faiths is represented in ornately tiled minarets, marble reliefs of Christian saints and colossal carved Buddhas. The images follow Peter Frankopan’s narrative up to the present day, with the past 100 years captured in Soviet-era posters, magazine covers and news photography. In a new introduction, he reflects on recent events, suggesting that the invasion of Ukraine, the effects of climate change and the race for natural resources will ensure the countries of the Silk Roads remain critical to global geopolitics.

About the book

Presented in beautifully opulent gold-blocked cover designs, drawing on patterns and motifs from Eastern art, the Folio edition of The Silk Roads is lavishly illustrated. Each of the two volumes features 32 pages of colour and black-and-white images. They include treasures traded and looted – Incan gold, Benin bronzes and vivid Chinese silk damask – alongside paintings, manuscripts and miniatures, from medieval Baghdad to renaissance Venice. The clash of faiths is represented in ornately tiled minarets, marble reliefs of Christian saints and colossal carved Buddhas. The images follow Peter Frankopan’s narrative up to the present day, with the past 100 years captured in Soviet-era posters, magazine covers and news photography. In a new introduction, he reflects on recent events, suggesting that the invasion of Ukraine, the effects of climate change and the race for natural resources will ensure the countries of the Silk Roads remain critical to global geopolitics.