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Silk Roads

Professor Peter FRANKOPAN

Silk Roads

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The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

The programme mentioned it as Peter Frankopan's international bestseller that explores the historical connections forged along the Silk Roads.

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You're out there firstly with Silk Roads, your international bestseller, and now with The Earth Transformed, an untold history.

— Episode: 313: Climate Apocalypse

Episode: 313: Climate Apocalypse

The programme mentioned it as Peter Frankopan's international bestseller that explores the historical connections forged along the Silk Roads.

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You're out there firstly with Silk Roads, your international bestseller, and now with The Earth Transformed, an untold history.

Empire: World History

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Empire: World History

The book was highlighted as the foundational source for the author's own work and was praised as a perfect example of its subject. William Dalrymple recommended it enthusiastically, noting its influence on his writing. In a later episode, he also pointed out an excellent section that discusses dramatic climate disruption in the mid‑530s, underscoring its scholarly depth. Overall, the hosts conveyed strong approval of the title.

Highly Recommended

Episode: 137. Empress Theodora: Making Heaven on Earth

An excellent section of the book is mentioned in reference to dramatic climate disruption around the Mediterranean in the mid-530s.

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Our friend Peter Franca pan makes much of this in his new history of the world an excellent section of Peter's book where probably due to volcanic eruptions in central america we have enormous climatic disruption in northern hemisphere

Episode: 179. The Golden Road: Rise of the Indosphere

It was mentioned as the starting point for the author's book, and was praised for being a perfect book.

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This wonderful book, The Silk Roads, was very much the starting point of this book and I've been having very agreeable disagreements with Peter for about five, six years.

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