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The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy Trade paperback - 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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- 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 Trade paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Fine.
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Vintage, New York, NY
- Date 1997
- Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # Alibris.0030713
- 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)
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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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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
"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