Ends of the Earth From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy

Name: Ends of the Earth From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
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ISBN: 9780679751236

ISBN-10: 0679751238

ISBN-13: 9780679751236

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Authors: 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…

Book details

List price: $18.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/28/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Journalist Robert D. Kaplan is a contributing editor The Atlantic Monthly. He has traveled extensively, and his journeys through Yugoslavia and America have produced, respectively, Balkan Ghosts (which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize) and An Empire Wilderness. Kapan is also the author of Monsoon: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power (Random House, 2010) and The Revenge of Geography (Random House, 2012) Kaplan has lectured at the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Pentagon's Joint Staff, major universities, the CIA, and business forums.