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100			_aKaplan, Robert D
245			_aThe ends of the earth : from Toto to turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a journey to the frontiers of anarchy
260			_aNew York _bVintage _c1997
300			_a476p.
520			_aAuthor of Balkan Ghosts, Robert D. Kaplan now travels from West Africa to Southeast Asia to report on a world of disintegrating nation-states, warring nationalities, metastasizing populations, and dwindling resources. He emerges with a gritty tour de force of travel writing and political journalism. Whether he is walking through a shantytown in the Ivory Coast or a death camp in Cambodia, talking with refugees, border guards, or Iranian revolutionaries, Kaplan travels under the most arduous conditions and purveys the most startling truths. Intimate and intrepid, erudite and visceral, The Ends of the Earth is an unflinching look at the places and peoples that will make tomorrow's headlines--and the history of the next millennium. "Kaplan is an American master of...travel writing from hell...Pertinent and compelling."--New York Times Book Review "An impressive work. Most travel books seem trivial beside it.
650			_aTravel
650			_aWest Africa
650			_aAsia
650			_aMiddle East
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999			_c62007 _d62007