Silk: Nine Stories of the Fiber That Made the World Small

by Peter Hollins, Nathan Mercer

109 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 10, 2026

About the author

Peter Hollins is a bestselling author, human psychology researcher, and a student of the human condition. He possesses a BS in psychology and a graduate degree.

Reviews

[SplkdancerReviews · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good microhistory. Very readable history for someone who might want to learn about just how interconnected the world is. Great read, especially for someone who has only studied history in geographic blocks. Is it the most historically thorough, no - it makes large leaps and summarizes huge swaths of history and skips the nuance of cause and effect far more granular than what it covers. But that doesn't make it a bad read... I found it very interesting, clever and providing a high level overview across history that I hadn't seen before. If you want an in-depth thoroughly researched history, look elsewhere, but if you want a pop-culture entertaining read and aerial fly thru of several millennia of history, then you'll enjoy this.