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The New Silk Roads
- The Present and Future of the World
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
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Summary
'All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.'
When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically.
Following the Silk Roads eastwards, from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. In an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the Western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads since 2015, where ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established.
With brilliant insight, Peter Frankopan takes a fresh look at the network of relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the Silk Roads today, assessing the global reverberations of these continual shifts in the centre of power - all too often absent from headlines in the West. This important - and ultimately hopeful - book asks us to reassess who we are and where we are in the world, illuminating the themes on which all our lives and livelihood depend.
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All roads used to lead to Rome. Today, they lead to Beijing.'When The Silk Roads was published in 2015, it became an instant classic. A major reassessment of world history, it compelled us to look at the past from a different perspective. The New Silk Roads brings this story up to date, addressing the present and future of a world that is changing dramatically.
Following the Silk Roads eastwards, from Europe through to China, by way of Russia and the Middle East, The New Silk Roads provides a timely reminder that we live in a world that is profoundly interconnected. In an age of Brexit and Trump, the themes of isolation and fragmentation permeating the Western world stand in sharp contrast to events along the Silk Roads since 2015, where ties have been strengthened and mutual cooperation established.
With brilliant insight, Peter Frankopan takes a fresh look at the network of relationships being formed along the length and breadth of the Silk Roads today, assessing the global reverberations of these continual shifts in the centre of power - all too often absent from headlines in the West. This important - and ultimately hopeful - book asks us to reassess who we are and where we are in the world, illuminating the themes on which all our lives and livelihood depend.
©2018 Peter Frankopan (P)2018 Audible, Ltd
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- Larry Reacher
- 14-06-19
great book..
great book.. a good update to the original book.. A book I recommend if you liked the first book.
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- M. Hakimi
- 21-08-19
Fascinating and eye opening of the future world
Excellent naration, could not stop listening till the end. Highly recommended audiobook for people who have interest in the global affairs.
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- Rob Sedgwick
- 11-12-21
Hopelessly out of date in 3 years!
I listened to this over quite a long period so perhaps my memory is playing tricks as the earlier chapters I heard some time ago but my impression is it's rather repetitive. You could really listen to any 2 chapters from the book and get the general message: the West is declining and the East is rising again, and only something huge will stop it.
Since then there has been something huge: covid. Although this book was written in 2018 it feels like it belongs to yesteryear, a simpler age when Trump was president and Brexit had not happened. And pandemics happened in the distant past and in post-apocalypse films.
A sequel is due!
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- Simon
- 02-04-19
Silk Road 2
Similar to the book Easternisation by Gideon Rachman, Silk Road-2 indicates the importance of the rise in China.i still think the first Silk Road book is one the best history book I have read for many many years. This is not too far from that. Well done. Highly recommended.
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- Angus
- 02-12-18
Very interesting, left wanting more
Compared to the length of vol.1, 6 hours left me wanting more depth and scope.
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- sean
- 05-03-20
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loved it. so relevant to todays world changes. very interesting and good to listen to when driving
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- Fergal Harkin
- 06-01-24
A different perspective
Great narrator and good to hear about different perspectives of east bs west, democracy vs other forms of national state
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- Amazon Customer
- 27-05-24
Great read
Unfortunately too much about the ‘Stans’ for my liking and referral to Trump which is now irrelevant to some extent but great otherwise. Final chapter - marvellous
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- Good Grain
- 07-01-19
A particularly well written Guardian editorial
The book is simply too caught up in the then current events of a few months ago and seems very dated already due to the fast paced and ever changing nature of Trump's presidency. Frankopan is ultimately a better historian than he is a journalist with the book constantly stumbling into well worn arguments against Trump and Brexit that are by now very boring.
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- Chong Beng Lim
- 23-04-19
Remarkable
An incredibly illuminating book about the future of the globe. Unfortunately, it doesn't deal with much on technology.
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