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"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."
- Yevgeny Zamyatin
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| | The Ends of the Earth:
From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
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| | by Robert D. Kaplan
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ZIN Product Number: 10182068
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 476 pages
Publisher: Knopf Alfred A
ISBN: 0679751238
Release Date: Jan 8, 1998
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Kaplan's book takes the form of a travelogue, beginning with his tourof West Africa, and continuing . . . {through} countries in the Near East andCentral, South, and Southeast Asia." (New Yorker) Bibliography. Index.
| | | | From The Publisher
In The Ends of the Earth, Robert D. Kaplan travels from the devastated 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. Kaplan's intention was to investigate firsthand the effect of population explosion and environmental degradation in these countries and to see how the various cultures he encountered responded to them. But as he traveled, talking to gun smugglers and government ministers, warlords and shantytown dwellers, he discovered that the real problem, in places as far afield as Sierra Leone and western China, was the reemergence of longstanding cultural rivalries and the dissolution of national boundaries as regions redefine themselves along ethnic and historic lines. Kaplan's ground-level experiences allow him to avoid grandiose generalizations about the clash of civilizations and to replace them with intimate portraits of the men and women he encounters: Rafighdoost, Khomeini's fiercely loyal chauffeur; Ali Abdel Razag, keeper of the Aswan High Dam; and Ayshe Tanrikulu, a squatter on Golden Mountain, a shantytown on the outskirts of Ankara, who hopes that her sons will one day be doctors or engineers. It is in the squalor of daily existence and in people's fears, frustrations, and dreams that Kaplan looks for the key to a country's future. The Ends of the Earth offers an intimate portrait of the devastated parts of the world, whose cultural disasters - like those in Bosnia, Chechnya, and Rwanda today - will dominate our attention and remake the world of tomorrow.
| | | | Annotation
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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And Dante Thought He Knew Inferno
-- Stewart Forbes, January 19, 2001
Also Recommended: The Coming Anarchy by Robert Kaplan, From Jihad to McWorld by Benjamin Barber, The Republic by Plato.
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
"In a controversial Atlantic Monthly article in 1994, Robert Kaplan predicted anarchy: extreme poverty and famine made worse by a widening gap between the ever more desperate underprivileged and the overprivileged who ignore them. Mr. Kaplan's dark prognosis...is eloquently illustrated and documented in The Ends of the Earth"--Peter Matthieson
| |  | | | | Preface | | | Pt. I | West Africa: Back to the Dawn? | 1 | | 1 | An Unsentimental Journey | 3 | | 2 | Sierra Leone: From Graham Greene to Thomas Malthus? | 32 | | 3 | Along the Gulf of Guinea | 70 | | Pt. II | The Nile Valley: The Hollow Pyramid | 89 | | 4 | "Oriental Despotism" | 91 | | 5 | Islamic Coketown | 101 | | 6 | Voices of the "Tormented City" | 119 | | Pt. III | Anatolia and the Caucasus: The Earth's Strategic Core? | 127 | | 7 | "The Still Point of the Turning World" | 129 | | 8 | Mother Lode | 142 | | 9 | By Caspian Shores | 163 | | Pt. IV | The Iranian Plateau: The Earth's "Soft Centre" | 173 | | 10 | A Country of Flowers and Nightingales | 175 | | 11 | The Revolution of "the Hand" | 188 | | 12 | Bazaar States | 199 | | 13 | Qom's Last Tremors | 215 | | 14 | The Heart of Persia | 225 | | 15 | The Tower of Qabus | 237 | | Pt. V | Central Asia: Geographical Destinies | 243 | | 16 | Russian Outpost | 245 | | 17 | Pre-Byzantine Turks and Civilization Clashes | 256 | | 18 | Clean Toilets and the Legacy of Empires | 273 | | 19 | China: "Super-Chaos" and "Physical-Social" Theory | 290 | | 20 | Strategic Hippie Routes | 302 | | 21 | The Roof of the World | 312 | | 22 | The Last Map | 325 | | Pt. VI | The Indian Subcontinent and Indochina: The Way of the Future? | 339 | | 23 | Journey in a Plague Year | 341 | | 24 | Rishi Valley and Human Ingenuity | 354 | | 25 | Bangkok: Environmental and Sexual Limits | 369 | | 26 | Laos, or Greater Siam? | 390 | | 27 | Cambodia: Back to Sierra Leone? | 401 | | 28 | Jungle Temples and the "Milk of Chaos" | 421 | | 29 | One Death at the Edge of the Earth | 429 | | Acknowledgments | 439 | | Bibliography | 443 | | Index | 461 |
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