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Customer Reviews:
A Fun Read
By Sara A. Duvall "S. Duvall" - December 17, 2007This book was really a fun read - like travel literature plus. I never before thought about what Asia was like when Europe was in the Dark Ages. It's based on the actual journals of people who traveled during that time. There are lots of exotic places, like Bukhara and Samarkand, but I never felt lost. There are good maps and there always seemed to be a paragraph of explanation just when I needed it. The book kept coming back to themes, like common court ceremony or the shared fears of pirates. . A lot of the travelers had friends spread across much of Asia. My favorite chapter was on a man named Ibn Battuta. He went all the way from Morocco to China telling stories and bringing news to courts along the way and made it back to Morocco. It's a readable sized book, a little over 200 pages, and at the end I felt as if I'd been right along with these travelers, felt the heat and cold, and learned a lot about their world.
A new view of premodern world history
By Richard Tucker "Global citizen" - February 11, 2009This is a brilliantly innovative and highly readable account of the "world" that stretched from the Middle East to East Asia for a millenium before Europe began to sail the globe. Describing a series of contrasting individuals who travelled great distances across kingdoms and cultures, the author takes us vividly through a fascinating kaleidoscope of landscapes, economies, and spiritual terrains as a truly cosmopolitan economy evolved. This book reminds us that Europe was peripheral to world history for many centuries, far from the great civilizations. Providing a fresh balance to Eurocentric assumptions about global history, it will be equally delightful as a classroom textbook and a weekend companion for general readers.
Asian trade routes through the eyes of travelers
By Dennis P. Waters - September 21, 2009Stewart Gordon's book reminds us that while Europe was huddling under the medieval cloak known as the "Dark Ages," Asia was quite the opposite - vast and vibrant and connected by trade routes over land and sea.
He tells this millennium-long story through a series of vignettes drawn from diaries, biographies, letters, and even a shipwreck. Some are from China looking west, others from Muslim lands looking east, and some from the wilds of central Asia. They are tales of individuals at specific times and places, but Gordon does a nice job of tying them to larger themes - customs, currencies, religions, and the financial and family networks that underlay long-distance trade.
When Asia Was the World is neither a very long nor a very challenging read, but it packs a lot of information. Gordon is a clear writer, though not an inspired one. There is a useful annotated bibliography and each chapter contains a helpful map.
I will give it four stars: good... read more
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