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(0)Peter Frankopan
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 645 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 695 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Global warming is one of the greatest dangers mankind faces today. Even as temperatures increase, sea levels rise, and natural disasters escalate, our current environmental crisis feels difficult to predict and understand. But climate change and its effects on us are not new. In a bold narrative that spans centuries and continents, Peter Frankopan argues that nature has always played a fundamental role in the writing of history. From the fall of...