Peter Frankopan is a historian at Oxford University, where he is Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. He works on the history of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, the Caucasus, Russia and on relations between Christianity and Islam. Moreover, he often writes for the international press, including The New York Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian and has contributed to many TV and Radio documentaries. His international bestseller The Silk Roads: A New History of the World, described by William Dalrymple as a ‘historical epic of dazzling range, ambition and achievement’, aims to be a major reassessment of world history.

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The Silk Road: Where East Meets the West: Explore how the Silk Roads, the crossroads of the world, shaped global history over the past 2000 years as writer and historian Peter Frankopan talks to William Dalrymple about his latest book. (2016)