TY - BOOK AU - Frankopan, Peter TI - The Silk Roads SN - 9781408883136 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury KW - Commerce KW - Trade routes KW - Asia--silk road N2 - For centuries, fame and fortune was to be found in the west – in the New World of the Americas. Today, it is the east which calls out to those in search of adventure and riches. The region stretching from eastern Europe and sweeping right across Central Asia deep into China and India, is taking centre stage in international politics, commerce and culture – and is shaping the modern world ER -