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The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

Robert D. Kaplan

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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.

Language: English

Pages: 496

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: January 28, 1997

ISBN: 0679751238

ISBN 13: 9780679751236

The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

Robert D. Kaplan

4.1/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 496

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Vintage

Release: January 28, 1997

ISBN: 0679751238

ISBN 13: 9780679751236

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