{"product_id":"the-ends-of-the-earth-from-togo-to-turkmenistan-from-iran-to-cambodia-a-journey-to-the-frontiers-of-anarchy-paperback","title":"The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert D. Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor of \u003cb\u003eBalkan Ghosts\u003c\/b\u003e, 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, \u003cb\u003eThe Ends of the Earth\u003c\/b\u003e is an unflinching look at the places and peoples that will make tomorrow's headlines--and the history of the next millennium. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Kaplan is an American master of...travel writing from hell...Pertinent and compelling.\"--New York Times Book Review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An impressive work. Most travel books seem trivial beside it.\"--Washington Post Book World\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor 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. \u003cbr\u003e\"Kaplan is an American master of...travel writing from hell...Pertinent and compelling.\"--New York Times Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\"An impressive work. Most travel books seem trivial beside it.\"--Washington Post Book World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert D. Kaplan\u003c\/b\u003e is the bestselling author of twenty books on foreign affairs and travel translated into many languages, including \u003ci\u003eAdriatic, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Good American\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of Geography, Asia's Cauldron, Monsoon, The Coming Anarchy, and Balkan Ghosts.\u003c\/i\u003e He holds the Robert Strausz-Hupé Chair in Geopolitics at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. For three decades he reported on foreign affairs for \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. He was a member of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board and the U.S. Navy's Executive Panel. \u003ci\u003eForeign Policy\u003c\/i\u003e magazine twice named him one of the world's \"Top 100 Global Thinkers.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 496\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.01 x 8.16 x 5.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 28, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46871797694603,"sku":"9780679751236","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/coingratulations.com\/products\/the-ends-of-the-earth-from-togo-to-turkmenistan-from-iran-to-cambodia-a-journey-to-the-frontiers-of-anarchy-paperback","provider":"Coingratulations","version":"1.0","type":"link"}