The Ends Of The Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the 21st Century
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...
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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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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679431480 (0679431489)
Publish date: February 27th 1996
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 476
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Writing,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
Journalism,
War,
Military,
Religion,
Politics,
Asia,
Islam
☆☆☆☆☆--Robert D. Kaplan's 1996 ENDS OF THE EARTH is his best work, a true "tour de force" as he backpacks, budget airlines and jeeps his ways from Tehran to Kazakhstan to Thailand. the scope and reach of his travels--Iran itself being worth the price of admission--earns him full accolades as he dare...
What a journey, I found myself wanting to visit some of the places and thanking God that I don't have to go to others. Always good reading when he travels.
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