Sandeep Dikshit
Posted at: Jan 20, 2019, 7:06 AM
Last updated: Jan 20, 2019, 7:06 AM (IST)
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan.Bloomsbury.Pages 336.Rs 699Sandeep Dikshit Peter Frankopan’s first offering, The Silk Roads, was packaged differently. The book itself was in the shape of an elongated tourist guide with a stunning jade blue Persian motif as the jacket. The content was far from the Euro-centric visions of the Silk Route, which is not any particular avenue but the numerous pathways that connected one end of Asia to another, and then looped over the seas to connect other continents. The Mediterranean, for him was not the crucible of modern civilisation. It was a far more complex affair involving the transfer of goods, ideas and technologies and the bulk of the churning took place in the swathe from Persia to China with India and the stans in between.His follow-up effort, The New Silk Roads, again has a stunning cover, is more contemporary a…
Posted at: Jan 20, 2019, 7:06 AM
Last updated: Jan 20, 2019, 7:06 AM (IST)
The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan.Bloomsbury.Pages 336.Rs 699Sandeep Dikshit Peter Frankopan’s first offering, The Silk Roads, was packaged differently. The book itself was in the shape of an elongated tourist guide with a stunning jade blue Persian motif as the jacket. The content was far from the Euro-centric visions of the Silk Route, which is not any particular avenue but the numerous pathways that connected one end of Asia to another, and then looped over the seas to connect other continents. The Mediterranean, for him was not the crucible of modern civilisation. It was a far more complex affair involving the transfer of goods, ideas and technologies and the bulk of the churning took place in the swathe from Persia to China with India and the stans in between.His follow-up effort, The New Silk Roads, again has a stunning cover, is more contemporary a…