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fabrice44 's review for:
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
by Peter Frankopan
Although the beginning showed an interesting view of the commercial exchange in the silk road and its impact on the rise and fall of empires, I found the handling of modern area lacking of depth, out of topic and even a bit biased in favor of US and Israeli. I wasn't reading this book for that.
The author is trying to make oil trade and US middle east involvement fit in the Silk Roads. I don't buy it. Those road are trade route between East and West, China and Mediterranean sea. Connection between those two fields seems tiny to me except that middle east was a Silk Road trading post.
Therefore, I couldn't finish it and gave it this low grade.
I would recommend to read this book until the chapter 12 and will have give it a 4 stars review if it has stopped there and use the remaining pages to talk more about the steppes tribes, Chinese traders, treasure ships and Arab caravans.
The author is trying to make oil trade and US middle east involvement fit in the Silk Roads. I don't buy it. Those road are trade route between East and West, China and Mediterranean sea. Connection between those two fields seems tiny to me except that middle east was a Silk Road trading post.
Therefore, I couldn't finish it and gave it this low grade.
I would recommend to read this book until the chapter 12 and will have give it a 4 stars review if it has stopped there and use the remaining pages to talk more about the steppes tribes, Chinese traders, treasure ships and Arab caravans.