The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century - Hardcover

Kaplan, Robert D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679431489 ISBN 13: 9780679431480

Publisher: Random House, 1996

Synopsis

The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, the people who will remake our world tomorrow are profiled.

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Review:

Robert D. Kaplan, author of the acclaimed Balkan Ghosts, travels from the countries of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia with hardly more than a notebook and a backpack. The result is an intimate portrait of the devastated parts of the world whose cultural disasters - like those in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Chechnya - will dominate our attention and remake the world of tomorrow.

About the Author:

Robert D. Kaplan is a national correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly and the bestselling author of eleven previous books on foreign affairs and travel, including Balkan Ghosts, The Ends of the Earth, The Coming Anarchy, and Eastward to Tartary and most recently Imperial Grunts. He is currently the Class of 1960 Distinguished Visiting Professor at the United States Naval Academy. He lives with his wife and son in western Massachusetts.
From the Trade Paperback edition.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0679431489
• ISBN 13: 9780679431480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 476