The Silk Roads: A New History of the World: Audiobook
According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World runs 24.1 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by Laurence Kennedy (about 16 hours at 1.5× playback speed).
The instrument When will you finish it?
Based on 24.1 hours of listening.
| Your pace | You'll finish in |
|---|---|
| 30 min / day | 49 days |
| 1 hour / day | 25 days |
| 2 hours / day | 13 days |
| 1 hour / day at 1.5× | 17 days |
You'll finish in – by –
Part of The Audiobook Finish-Time Calculator: the same instrument for any audiobook we measure.
What our data says
- At 24.1 hours, it runs longer than 96% of the 3,859 World audiobooks in our catalog.
More narrated by Laurence Kennedy
Laurence Kennedy narrates 9 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 108 hours in all.
- A Ladder to the Sky: From the bestselling author of The Heart’s Invisible Furies
- Reverse Your Diabetes: The Step-by-Step Plan to Take Control of Type 2 Diabetes
- Ship of Rome
- A Particular Eye for Villainy
- Ashes in the Wind
About as long, on the World shelf
106 World audiobooks in our catalog run within 10% of this length. The most popular on the store:
- Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson And The Opening Of The American West
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
- Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
- Cuba (Winner of the Pulitzer Prize): An American History
- The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron
Computed from 170,512 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read October 21, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.
About this listen
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is an audiobook by Peter Frankopan: a 24.1-hour unabridged recording, read by Laurence Kennedy, released April 20, 2021, on the World shelf.
The listen at a glance
- Length
- 24.1 hrs
- Narrated by
- Laurence Kennedy
- Released
- April 20, 2021
- Format
- Unabridged audiobook
- Language
- English
- Store shelves
- World
- ISBN
- 9780593415832
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Start listening freeQuestions listeners ask
How long is The Silk Roads: A New History of the World as an audiobook?
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World runs 24.1 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 16 hours.
Is The Silk Roads: A New History of the World free as an audiobook?
Yes, for new listeners: the trial starts you with three free audiobooks.
Who narrates The Silk Roads: A New History of the World?
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World is narrated by Laurence Kennedy.
Is The Silk Roads: A New History of the World worth listening to at 1.5× speed?
At 1.5× you'd finish in about 16 hours, saving 8 hours.