The Silk Road: A Living History - Hardcover

Christopher Wilton-Steer is a renowned travel photographer whose work takes him to remote and off-the-beaten-track locations across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. His photography explores less well documented and often misunderstood parts of the world in an effort to build bridges of interest and understanding between distant cultures and bring attention to diminishing cultures.

His work has been featured in the likes of National Geographic, The Guardian, China Daily, the Financial Times, and CNN, as well as in exhibitions around the world since 2016. Wilton-Steer also serves as Global Lead for Communications at the Aga Khan Foundation. The Silk Road: A Living History is his first book, comprising over 100 photographs alongside travel notes and reflections.

Peter Frankopan is a Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is the Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. He is also the UNESCO Professor of Silk Roads Studies and a Bye-Fellow at King's College, Cambridge. He works on the history and politics of the Mediterranean, Russia, the Middle East, Persia/Iran, Central Asia, China and beyond.

Frankopan is a bestselling author, and his books The Silk Roads: A New History of the World (2015), The New Silk Roads: The Future and Present of the World (2018) and The Earth Transformed (2023) have been translated into forty languages. Cultivating an interest in historical trade routes for over four decades, Frankopan brings his expertise to the preface of The Silk Road: A Living History.