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The Ends of the Earth
From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
by Robert Kaplan
ISBN: 0679751238
ISBN-13: 9780679751236
Format: Paperback
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Summary
The author travels in the third world and analyzes the implications of what he sees there.
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"You have to hand it to Kaplan. He travels light, he travels dirty, and he goes to places that most travelers would thankfully avoid. He has also done his homework and has a useful frame of reference in which to fit his experiences and observations. Many are valuable...for sheer entertainment, vigor, sharp observation, and thoughtful comparison, Kaplan takes a lot of beating."
-- Kirkus
"...the powerful, unsettling record of Kaplan's travels through the unmapped reality of Africa, the Middle East and Asia....Kaplan is a superb reporter, expertly weaving his precise, vivid observation of facts at hand into a larger context of global social change....We ignore the book's hard questions at our peril." -- Michael Stern
-- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
"It is a formidable undertaking, and shows the writer's commitment, curiosity, and just plain stamina....Acute observation is mixed with anecdotes, interviews, and references to secondary sources. This is beyond doubt Kaplan's most important book." -- Paul Kennedy
-- New York Review of Books
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 1997
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.85 pounds
Publisher's Notes
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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Ends Of The Earth - A Journey To The Frontiers Of Anarchy
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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Vintage Books, 1997. 476 pgs including index; cover shelf worn along edges & corners;. ISBN: 0679751238. Pictorial Cover, paper.. Very Good. 8vo - over 4¾" - 9¾" Tall. ASIA DESCRIPTION TRAVEL AFRICA WEST MIDDLE EAST ROBERT KAPLAN JOURNEYS ASIA AFRICA. ( more information) Offered by Highway Book Shop (Canada)
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The Ends of the Earth From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
Kaplan, Robert D
New York: Vintage. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1997. Trade Paperback. 0679751238 . Trade Paperback with yellowing text blocks, edgewear and creasing on the spine, light scuffing on the covers. "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." ; Maps; 1.26 x 7.87 x 5.2 Inches; 476 pages . ( more information) Offered by Bytown Bookery (Canada)
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The Ends of the Earth
Robert D Kaplan
Vintage Books, 1997. 1st Ed thus. softcover. Very Good+. 8vo, Signed by the author, travels in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, current affairs, index, 476 pages" . ISBN: 0-679-75123-8. ( more information) Offered by Stone Soup Books (United States)
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