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" The ends of the earth : "
Robert D. Kaplan.
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BL
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945533
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bc131
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English
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| Main Entry
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-
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The ends of the earth : : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia-- a journey to the frontiers af anarchy /\ Robert D. Kaplan.
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First Vintage edition.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Vintage Departures/Vintage Books,, 1997.
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Vintage departures
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1 online resource (xiv, 476 pages) :: maps.
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| ISBN
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9780804153485
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: 0804153485
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0679751238
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9780679751236
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Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1996.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-460) and index.
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| Contents
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West Africa: back to the dawn? --- The Nile Valley: the hollow pyramid --- Anatolia and the Caucasus: the earth's strategic core? --- The Iranian plateau: the earth's "soft centre" --- Central Asia: geographical destinies --- The Indian subcontinent and Indochina: the way of the future?
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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. -- Publisher decription.
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-Travel-- Asia.
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-Travel-- Africa, West.
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-Travel-- Middle East.
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Kaplan, Robert D.,1952-
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SCIENCE-- Earth Sciences-- Geography.
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TRAVEL-- Budget.
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TRAVEL-- Hikes Walks.
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TRAVEL-- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
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TRAVEL-- Parks Campgrounds.
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Travel.
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Asia, Description and travel.
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Africa, West, Description and travel.
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Middle East, Description and travel.
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West Africa.
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Asia.
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Middle East.
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| Dewey Classification
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910/.9181/1
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DS10.K345 1997eb
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74.15bcl
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