Ebook: The ends of the earth: from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia-- a journey to the frontiers af anarchy
Author: Kaplan Robert D
- Tags: SCIENCE--Earth Sciences--Geography, Travel, TRAVEL--Budget, TRAVEL--Hikes & Walks, TRAVEL--Museums Tours Points of Interest, TRAVEL--Parks & Campgrounds, Electronic books, Biography, Asia -- Description and travel, Africa West -- Description and travel, Middle East -- Description and travel, Kaplan Robert D. -- 1952- -- Travel -- Asia, Kaplan Robert D. -- 1952- -- Travel -- Africa West, Kaplan Robert D. -- 1952- -- Travel -- Middle East, SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography, TRAVEL -- Budget, TRAVEL
- Series: Vintage departures
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- City: Africa;West;Asia;Middle East;West Africa
- Edition: First Vintage edition
- Language: English
- epub
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. -- Publisher decription.;West Africa: back to the dawn? --- The Nile Valley: the hollow pyramid --- Anatolia and the Caucasus: the earth's strategic core? --- The Iranian plateau: the earth's "soft centre" --- Central Asia: geographical destinies --- The Indian subcontinent and Indochina: the way of the future?
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