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The Ends of the Earth-From Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia-a Journey
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The Ends of the Earth-From Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia-a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy Soft cover - 1997 - 1st Edition

by Kaplan, Robert

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Having drawn a startlingly prescient portrait of the Bosnian catastrophe in his bestseller, "Balkan Ghosts", Robert Kaplan now travels more widely and ambitiously. In this gritty tour de force of travel writing and political reportage, he covers an arc from West Africa to Southeast Asia, across a world in which nation-states are giving way to warring nationalities and where metastasizing populations compete for dwindling resources. 6 maps.

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1997. First Vintage Departures Edition. . Soft cover. Fine. Fine 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.476 with index and bibliography. A look at the places and peoples that will make tomorrow's headlines-and the history of the next millennium. clean tight copy.
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  • Title The Ends of the Earth-From Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia-a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
  • Author Kaplan, Robert
  • Binding Soft cover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition First Vintage Departures Edition.
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 496
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Vintage Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 006511
  • ISBN 9780679751236 / 0679751238
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.16 x 5.14 x 1.01 in (20.73 x 13.06 x 2.57 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects Asia - Description and travel, Middle East - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96028272
  • Dewey Decimal Code 910.918

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From the publisher

Robert D. Kaplan is chief geopolitical analyst for Stratfor, a private global intelligence firm, and the author of fourteen books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including The Revenge of Geography: What the Map Tells Us About Coming Conflicts and the Battle Against Fate; Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power; Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History; and Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. He has been a foreign correspondent for The Atlantic for more than a quarter-century. In 2011 and 2012, Foreign Policy magazine named Kaplan among the world’s “Top 100 Global Thinkers.”
 
From 2009 to 2011, he served under Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as a member of the Defense Policy Board. Since 2008, he has been a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. From 2006 to 2008, he was the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor in National Security at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis.

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Author of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia, talking with refugees, border guards, or Iranian revolutionaries, Kaplan travels under the most arduous conditions and purveys the most startling truths. Intimate and intrepid, erudite and visceral, The Ends of the Earth is an unflinching look at the places and peoples that will make tomorrow's headlines--and the history of the next millennium.
"Kaplan is an American master of...travel writing from hell...Pertinent and compelling."--New York Times Book Review
"An impressive work. Most travel books seem trivial beside it."--Washington Post Book World

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  • New York Times, 05/18/1997, Page 36

About the author

Robert D. Kaplan is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including Adriatic, The Good American, The Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts. He holds the Robert Strausz-Hup Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for The Atlantic. He was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel. Foreign Policy magazine twice named him one of the world's "Top 100 Global Thinkers."