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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 364 pages
Edition: 1 ED
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0375502726
Release Date: Jan 8, 1998
Average Reader Review:    (Based on 8 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
In Eastward to Tartary, Robert D. Kaplan takes us on a spellbinding journey into the heart of a little-known but volatile region, stretching from Romania and Bulgaria to the far shores of the oil-rich Caspian Sea. As in Kaplan's bestselling Balkan Ghosts, it is a journey over land and through history, an introduction to an important and potentially explosive part of the world that is destined to be the new fault line between East and West.
Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters past and present, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of this unstable region that he describes as the Balkans of the future. He ventures from Turkey, Syria, and Israel to the turbulent countries of the Caucasus, from the newly rich city of Baku to the deserts of Turkmenistan and the killing fields of Armenia. Kaplan's flair for historical insight, coupled with vivid observations from his travels through this mysterious land of toppled regimes and ancient feuds, makes fascinating reading for anyone concerned about the state of our world in the decades to come.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 8 Average Rating:
This is a dull travelogue, not political insight
-- A reviewer, August 9, 2002
Also Recommended: ALL OTHER KAPLAN TITLES ARE MUCH BETTER
This is a dull travelogue, not political insight
-- A reviewer, August 9, 2002
Also Recommended: ALL OTHER KAPLAN TITLES ARE MUCH BETTER
Too much territory for one book
-- Earl Jones, a computer programmer - Detroit, MI, February 14, 2001
Also Recommended: Black Sea, From the Holy Mountain, Not Even My Name
Too much territory for one book
-- Earl Jones, a computer programmer - Detroit, MI, February 14, 2001
Also Recommended: Black Sea, From the Holy Mountain, Not Even My Name
Exceptional Book
-- giacomo, February 20, 2001
Exceptional Book
-- giacomo, February 20, 2001
The Soundbite Travelogue
-- Sam Vaknin, the author of 'After the Rain', May 7, 2001
The Soundbite Travelogue
-- Sam Vaknin, the author of 'After the Rain', May 7, 2001
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
Kaplan is one of the two or three top travel writers of our day. He chooses important places (not merely pretty); he studies up on history, geography, and societies; and he tells wonderful stories about people. I'm a great believer in the power of anecdote, and Kaplan is a master of anecdote—not simply to entertain but to instruct. Even when I disagree, I come away wiser.
—author of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations —David Landes
Writing in the glorious tradition of great Western travelers to the East in the last 150 years, Robert Kaplan belongs in the company of giants like Sir Richard Burton, Charles Montagu Doughty, and Dame Freya Stark. He is a national resource. Traveler, political observer, historian, modern-day Marco Polo, he reports with a novelist's flair on the Gordian knots of the future.
—author of Passionate Nomad: The Life of Freya Stark —Jane Fletcher Geniesse
| |  | | | | Author's Note | xiii | | Part I | The Balkans | | | 1. | Rudolf Fischer, Cosmopolitan | 3 | | 2. | Heading East | 12 | | 3. | The Widening Chasm | 18 | | 4. | Third World Europe | 29 | | 5. | Balkan Realists | 39 | | 6. | Pivot State | 49 | | 7. | "Civilizational Choice" | 58 | | 8. | Wrestlers Versus Democrats | 68 | | 9. | The Legacy of Orthodoxy | 78 | | 10. | "To the City" | 85 | | Part II | Turkey and Greater Syria | | | 11. | The "Deep State" | 93 | | 12. | The "Corpse in Armour" | 104 | | 13. | The New Caliphate | 115 | | 14. | The Sacred and the Profane | 126 | | 15. | The Corporate Satellite | 147 | | 16. | The Caravan State | 170 | | 17. | Crossing the Jordan | 184 | | 18. | Sepphoris and the Renewal of Judaism | 195 | | 19. | Throbbing Heart of the Middle East | 201 | | Part III | The Caucasus and Tartary | | | 20. | To Turkey's Northeastern Border | 213 | | 21. | Stalin's Beautiful Homeland | 220 | | 22. | Fossil Nations | 243 | | 23. | From Tbilisi to Baku | 256 | | 24. | Imperial Collisions | 265 | | 25. | By Boat to Tartary | 282 | | 26. | New Khanates | 286 | | 27. | A Herodotean Landscape | 303 | | Epilogue: Hayastan | | | 28 | Earth, Fire, Water | 311 | | Acknowledgments | 331 | | Notes | 335 | | Index | 349 |
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