The Silk Roads: The Extraordinary History That Created Your World - Illustrated Edition Hardcover – 27 Nov. 2018

A beautifully presented book, illustrated in a lovely style.I have been recommending this book to so many people. The content is essential and clearly written.No negative points but this is an abridged version in comparison to the larger paperback which is also excellent!

This book was brilliant for finding facts I would definitely suggest this book because it is a fun and interesting way to enhance your learning skills.thank you for reading my review ^^

While this is a nice concise history aimed at younger reader, I was disappointed by some of the stereotypes and inaccuracies of some of the Islamic history depicted here.

The illustrations are very good. The author is not talking down to his readers. He leads them through the Silk Roads into an overview of global developments really since Spain homed in on America. Bought a book for both grandsons. Recommend it

For any lover of history and any fan of the adult version of this book, this beautifully illustrated and produced children’s version in a must buy and must keep. I bought it for my nine year old and she is already gripped and I can see my son is going to follow in her footsteps.

I bought the book as a present for my sister and I think it is amazing,beautifully bound and illustrated but she seems very disappointed with it as it does not cover enough information about China as she had understood it would from reviews she had read. I have no complaints!

A nicely presented book, but the 11 year old I bought it for, who is an avid reader, couldn't be bothered with it. There was just too much skipping from topic to topic and not enough time spent on exploring and explaining each idea. And there were elements like quotations (e.g. from the Bible) where it doesn't give a reference, so a child wouldn't know why the sentence was in quotation marks or what it was supposed to mean. I don't know who it would be suitable for, really - it's not detailled enough for an adult to replace the original book, and the ideas are a bit complicated for younger readers. It's as though the language has been adapted for children, but not the structure. Nice pictures and maps, but it's clearly an adult book which has been simplified for children by someone who hasn't had a lot of exposure to real children.

Not as much information as I had thought,but good book for a younger person.