Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University where he is also Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College. He took a First in History and was Schiff Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, before completing his doctorate at Oxford, where he was Senior Scholar at Corpus Christi College. He has lectured all over the world, including at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Shanghai, Beijing, Dubai, Lahore, Astana, the UN and UNICEF. His revised translation of THE ALEXIAD by Anna Komnene was published in 2009 and THE FIRST CRUSADE: The Call from the East was published in 2012.

Books by Peter Frankopan

The Silk Roads: An Illustrated New History of the World

written by Peter Frankopan with illustrations by Neil Packer - Children's, Children's 10-14, Children's Nonfiction, History, Nonfiction