This, I believe, was one of the first History Teacher Book Club reads and therefore one I missed out on. I read the sequel, 'The New Silk Roads' on a plane flight between London and Abu Dhabi in one sitting - and Peter Frankopan even replied to my tweet, congratulating me for keeping my son asleep during the whole flight to allow me to do it! Anyway, my (extensive) notes from the original are below. An extraordinary study - one that is so wide and broad that I will have to sp

Sri Lanka A hugely enjoyable holiday, wonderful people, gorgeous wildlife and a fascinating history. Also, going through one heck of a financial and economic crisis. We saw diesel-fuelled commercial vehicles abandoned outside petrol stations, lining the roads around them. Lines and lines of people with jerry cans, anxiously waiting for new deliveries of petrol. Police were seen outside most petrol stations where large queues had formed. During the weekend we also saw protests