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The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy Paperback – January 28, 1997

by Robert D. Kaplan (Author)

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Author 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."--Washington Post Book World

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"The future here could be sadder than the present," writes Robert Kaplan in a chapter about the African nation of Sierra Leone. From Kaplan's perspective, the same could be said of virtually the entire Third World, which he spends the bulk of this book visiting and describing. Kaplan, an acclaimed foreign correspondent and author of Balkan Ghosts, is congenitally pessimistic about the developmental prospects of West Africa, the Nile Valley, and much of Asia. This traveler's tale offers dire warnings about overpopulation, environmental degradation, and social chaos. We should all hope that Kaplan's forecast is wrong, but we ignore him at our peril.

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Kaplan is a superb reporter, expertly weaving his precise, vivid observation of facts at hand into a larger context of global social change.

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Paperback: 498 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 1 edition (January 28, 1997)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679751238
ISBN-13: 978-0679751236
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1.2 x 8 inches
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An expansive, enthralling, highly-competent work of third world travel literature

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A deep, detailed, analytical journal of a truly monumental trek across a disjointed swath of Africa and Asia in the early 1990s. Part travelogue, part journalistic report, part history lesson, part political/demographic analysis/forecast, this is a very well-rounded and multi-faceted work of travel literature, all presented in extremely well-written, concise, and evocative language.

Most impressive to me were the remarkably articulate accounts of the author's personal experiences, impressions, and observations while traveling through some of the most challenging places on Earth. These passages often evoked in me the swelling and intoxicating highs of the wonder, discovery, and mind/soul-expanding effects such travel brings...and, on the flip side, the discomfort, anxiety, and risks that come with visiting such places, which, while being experienced can be unpleasant in the extreme, in retrospect often become key aspects of the journey.

The author doesn't waste any words. The amount of detail and information packed into these 440+ pages is overwhelming and frustratingly impossible to fully absorb, but even if a few bits and factoids manage to stick, it's a valuable endeavor. For me, I'm left less with all the specifics and minutiae (of which there is a lot here) and more with an overall sense of these places, how they compare and how they differ. The author does a very good job capturing the essence and "feel" of each new place and region he transitions into, weaving them all into a coherent, flowing narrative. I found it an extremely engaging read and a valuable insight into places I dream of one day having the opportunity to see and experience for myself.

In short, a truly impressive and expansive work of travel writing, giving an in-depth glimpse into, and overview of, a slew of important and fascinating lands many of us will unfortunately never get to experience for ourselves.

(Countries visited and documented in this book are: Ivory Coast, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Togo, Ghana, Egypt, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Pakistan, India, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia.)

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A critique of globalization masquerading as a travelogue. A classic, worth reading.

February 4, 2015

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This is a classic, first written in 1997 and now available on Kindle. Must be a bit dated now in 2015, but I think this is a book still worth reading.

In this narrative, Robert D. Kaplan travels through Africa, the Middle East, and central Europe, and writes about the places (not about his travel per se, but about the places). He has a penchant for seeking out the poor, the slums, the places and people who are among the "bottom billion", those left behind by the wonders of globalization. The opening section, on West Africa, is particularly riveting and disturbing. Kaplan has been criticized precisely for this penchant for seeking out the poorest and most desperate of places. But I think reading Kaplan is a worthwhile antidote for reading cheerleaders like Tom Friedman ("The Lexus and the Olive Tree") who gush about how globalization and growth will lift the whole world out of poverty. Kaplan reminds us that there are many left behind by this process of globalization.

The other criticism of Kaplan is that he's superficial. Let me speak to that. For those of us who don't have the time & money to actually travel around the world, the best we can do is read about it. So I do, and I find reading Kaplan to be interesting and informative. He gives some sense of what it'd be like if I were actually to go to those places. Superficial? Well, probably yes, but necessarily so. The world is incredibly complex, and after all how deep an understanding can one obtain of a place by travelling through it? I think Kaplan does as well as one can do in such an enterprise. In any case I think such a criticism misses the point of the book. The point of the book is not to do an in-depth analysis of every single country he visits. The point is more global than that: To highlight the fact that the process of globalization and growth is highly unequal, and there are billions left behind in dire poverty. Kaplan's book does an admirable job in that regard. He writes well, and what he writes is thought-provoking. A worthwhile read.

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