The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century

Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- author.

Book 1996

"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 cultur...

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Africa, West Description and travel

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Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- Travel Africa, West

Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- Travel Asia

Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- Travel Middle East

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ISBN:

9780679431480
0679431489

Edition:

First edition

Description:

xiv, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-460) and index

Contents:

Pt. I. West Africa: Back to the Dawn? 1. An Unsentimental Journey. 2. Sierra Leone: From Graham Greene to Thomas Malthus? 3. Along the Gulf of Guinea
Pt. II. The Nile Valley: The Hollow Pyramid. 4. "Oriental Despotism" 5. Islamic Coketown. 6. Voices of the "Tormented City"
Pt. III. Anatolia and the Caucasus: The Earth's Strategic Core? 7. "The Still Point of the Turning World" 8. Mother Lode. 9. By Caspian Shores
Pt. IV. The Iranian Plateau: The Earth's "Soft Centre" 10. A Country of Flowers and Nightingales. 11. The Revolution of "the Hand" 12. Bazaar States. 13. Qom's Last Tremors. 14. The Heart of Persia. 15. The Tower of Qabus
Pt. V. Central Asia: Geographical Destinies. 16. Russian Outpost. 17. Pre-Byzantine Turks and Civilization Clashes. 18. Clean Toilets and the Legacy of Empires. 19. China: "Super-Chaos" and "Physical-Social" Theory. 20. Strategic Hippie Routes. 21. The Roof of the World. 22. The Last Map

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95024653

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58214

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