Peter Frankopan Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Peter Frankopan is a historian. Professor of Global History at Oxford. Director, Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. Silk Roads. The Environment & Climate Change. Needs coffee

Chinese religion through Hindu eyes; a study in the tendencies of Asiatic mentality
Benoy Kumar Sarkar
@Mapwgf Hi Marion - I think you might mean Benoy Kumar Sarkar, The Chinese Religion through Hindu Eyes: A Study in the Tendencies of Asiatic Mentality (Shanghai, 1916). Hope that helps.
Paperback, 2020
$29.24$14.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How Asia Found Herself: A Story of Intercultural Understanding
Nile Green
Very excited to welcome the brilliant Prof Nile Green to @KingsSilkRoads tomorrow to talk about his new book How Asia Found Herself: Intercultural Understanding in the Age of Empire. 2pm - all are welcome. https://t.co/2F5OYXEZCi
Hardcover, 2022
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
John Craxton: A Life of Gifts
Ian Collins
And the winner ! Ian Collins - now talking about John Craxton: A Life of Gifts @RuncimanAward https://t.co/BljrfJDsC4
Paperback, 2023
$27.50$13.75 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia
David Graeber
Pirate Enlightenment,' a slim, feisty book by the late anthropologist and political activist David Graeber... sets out to explore the impact that apparently egalitarian pirate communities and their “rebel culture” may have had on local social, economic and political development.
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Courting India: Seventeenth-Century England, Mughal India, and the Origins of Empire
Nandini Das
So pleased for and proud of my friend and colleague @rentravailer - what a glorious review of her fabulous new book #CourtingIndia by @SamDalrymple123 https://t.co/AZZ8oCTUJN
Hardcover, 2023
$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe
Caroline Dodds Pennock
3. On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe by @carolinepennock. A rare book that not only inverts standard narrative accounts of the crossing of the Atlantic, but one that will open doors for a new generation of scholarship https://t.co/wMqCIBDQgc
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han
James Tod
Very excited to see this in 2023 @AoAlio ! Lt.-Col. James Tod was a founding member and first Librarian of the @RAS_Soc. His Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han provide a fascinating window to the past. PLUS - new companion volume ed. by Norbert Peabody https://t.co/HCY5iChJDB
Hardcover, 2024
$1000.00$975.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Underground Asia: Global Revolutionaries and the Assault on Empire
Tim Harper
And will sit alongside ground-breaking work of Tim Harper and others on 'Underground Asia.' A great follow up too to yesteday's fantastic talk by Nile Green about new connections across Asia in the 19th & early 20th C. All welcome - starts at 2pm in person/online. Link above !
Paperback, 2023
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book