This is a really beautiful book to look at on the outside and the inside. It gives you a quick glance at some of the important things in history that you wouldn’t necessarily learn at school.
When this book first arrived I was really shocked by how big and beautiful it was. The title gleams in gold and the cover feels and looks wonderful. I like the way that it doesn’t have a dust jacket, but still has flaps on the inside of the front and back covers, so you can use them to Mark your place.
The illustrations are a bit strange but I really liked them. The colours aren’t all bright and in your face but slightly dull and almost faded, maybe to remind you it’s about old things.
The book is written in chapters which is really helpful because then you can just read one or two chapters at a time if you want to.
The history it talks about isn’t the stuff that we learn at school like WWII and the Egyptians. It covers all sorts of different places and times and I found out loads of new stuff that I want to find out more about now.
I would say this book kind of skips over everything briefly and it does seem to jump to and fro a bit, but it is a great way of finding out about times in history that you might not know about and a good start to doing more research.
I really enjoyed this book.
Spellbinding and astonishing
Take your journey along the silk roads, starting from the roads of the ancient world all the way to the road of disenchantment, passing through many historical figures along the way. The use of images allows the reader to picture what was going on and really engage in this book. As you pass along the next chapter you learn more about the historical figures and wars you may never have heard of.
What I loved about this book was that it uses a range of imagery that helps explain what was going on and many historical facts that I never knew. I also loved the detail.
I would recommend this book to those who love history and want to learn more about historical events that are maybe unknown to them.
The age I recommend this for is 11+ years.
Rating: 4 stars
An amazing book full of interesting historical facts.
The Silk Roads A New History of the World is a fascinating book that helps you learn lot about history. The book is easily read-able and gives you the urge to carry on reading as the information is presented in an interesting way. The artwork and illustrations are full of colour and very detailed.
I was very pleased when I received this amazing book because I have a huge interest in History. There was many things I learnt about, how trading started, different religions and many more historical facts. This is a brilliant and very informative book, which I would truly recommend to everyone to enhance their history knowledge.
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The Silk Road is an intriguing infusion of history that shows how the world became like it is today.
The Silk Roads is a brilliant factual book about the world and how it became like it is today. Peter Frankopan shows us how empires conquered nearly the whole world and (surprisingly!) how empires teamed up together. This book shows the history of humans and also the problems we overcome. It starts off by telling us where the world started and the great empires that sprung up from each country. It shows the fear that the Huns inflicted on all the empires and how religions started to cause problems that even led to entire empires fighting. During the very beginning the east was the centre for trading and cities were created thanks to trade. I recommend this book to anyone who likes history, the illustrations are stunning and the overall book is deeply thought provoking
This beautifully illustrated history book tells you about the silk roads and their role in the trade of goods, learning of different ways of living and sadly, wars. The author is great at describing things. You can pick this book up and learn something new each time! Unless you are a know-it-all!
My first impression of this book was that it is beautifully illustrated. It tells you about the silk roads and their role in the trade of goods, learning of different ways of living and sadly, wars. The colourful pictures draw you in and the maps help you understand the length and location of the silk roads. I agree with the author that at school we learn a lot about British history but this book shows how British history isn’t just what happens in Britain. The chapters are short which is good because there is a lot to learn and think about in each one. The author is great at describing things. You learn about the richness of cities who traded along the silk roads and the cost of items which we might not think of as luxuries now. There are parts which are sad to read and difficult to understand why it was thought ok to treat people the way they were treated, but there are also strange stories like the King who turned into a pig!
A concise yet full history of the world of trade for historians big or small!
‘The Silk Roads’ includes chronologically-ordered information about our world and the effects of trade, from the early Mesopotamians and Chinese to the two World Wars and the discovery of oil. It talks about lots of different countries and doesn’t just focus on one country alone. By doing so, it really shows the big picture and how historical events in different countries affect each other.
I really enjoyed reading this book because I like history and learning about historical people and events. The part I found most interesting was the Crusades and to learn how they still have an impact on current events around the world today.
I recommend this book to everybody, but you will particularly love it if you are a history fan. However, people who don’t like history will be encouraged to read this book as well, because of the beautiful illustrations which really help to bring history to life.
Which Pope was ignored when he told people to stop selling Christians?
Which country thought their economy and military would collapse without oil in the early 20th century?
Find the answers to these questions and more in ‘The Silk Roads’.