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The New Silk Roads: Peter Frankopan in conversation

22nd November 2024, 6:30pm - 7:45pm

The British Museum

£12

1.	Map of the world from 'Nuzhat al-mushtaq fi ikhtiraq al-afaq' (Book of Pleasant Journeys into Faraway Lands), 1533 manuscript of a 1154 original by al-Idrisi. Photo: The Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

22nd November 2024, 6:30pm - 7:45pm

The British Museum

£12

Travel from the Silk Roads into the present day with internationally bestselling author Peter Frankopan.

In this special event, author and historian Greg Jenner interviews Frankopan on his 'Book of the Decade' 'The Silk Roads' (2015) in relation to the Museum's new, five-star exhibition 'Silk Roads'.

This major exhibition unravels how the journeys of people, objects and ideas that formed the Silk Roads shaped cultures and histories.

Frankopan will also discuss the current landscape in relation to his book 'The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World' (2018).

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