THE SILK ROAD: A LIVING HISTORY
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
THE SILK ROAD: A LIVING HISTORY
By (Author) Christopher WILTON-STEER
Foreword by Peter FRANKOPAN
Hemeria
Hemeria
27th August 2025
France
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Landscapes / seascapes
Places and peoples: general and pictorial works
Photography and photographs
Individual photographers
Arid zones, deserts
The Earth: natural history: general interest
Asian history
History of art
Physical Properties
Hardback
208
Width 290mm, Height 240mm
Description
The Silk Road: A Living History invites you to take a journey from London to Beijing, encountering some of the people, places and cultures in-between. This unique collection celebrates the diversity found along this route, explores how historical customs live on today, and reveals connections between what appear at first glance to be very different cultures. Ultimately, the book aims to help build bridges of interest and understanding between distant places and challenge perceptions of les well-known or understood parts of the world.
Of course it reflects only a fraction of the realities of these places. It is one of an infinite number of stories that could be told.
Author Bio
Through his photography, Christopher Wilton-Steer is interested in exploring less well-documented and often misunderstood parts of the world to help demystify them and build bridges of interest and understanding between different cultures.
His work has been featured in magazines and newspapers worldwide including National Geographic, The Guardian, CNN, Financial Times, and Der Spiegel.
He had his first exhibition at the Institut Franaise in Antananarivo, Madagascar, in 2016.
Wilton-Steer's second exhibition-The Artisans of al-Darb al-Ahmar: Life and Work in Historic Cairo-was shown at London's Royal Geographical Society in 2018, at Philanthropy House in Brussels in 2019, and at the Museum Der Stadt Bad Ischl in Austria in 2021.
Christopher's third exhibition-The Silk Road: A Living History-was shown at London's King's Cross in 2021 and then at the Aga Khan Park in Toronto in 2022. There are plans to exhibit it in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, in 2023 as well as other cities.
Peter Frankopan (born 22 March 1971) is a British historian and writer. He is Professor of World History at Worcester College, Oxford, and Director of the Oxford Center for Byzantine Research. He is a member of the Royal Asiatic Society. He is best known for his 2015 book "The Silk Roads".
