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The ends of the earth

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 cultures he encountered responded to them. But as he traveled, talking to gun smugglers and government ministers, warlords and shantytown dwellers, he discovered that the real problem, in places as far afield as Sierra Leone and western China, was the reemergence of longstanding cultural rivalries and the dissolution of national boundaries as regions redefine themselves along ethnic and historic lines.

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  • "Zhong zu yu wen hua de bian jing zhi lü"
  • "種族與文化的邊境之旅"

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  • "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 cultures he encountered responded to them. But as he traveled, talking to gun smugglers and government ministers, warlords and shantytown dwellers, he discovered that the real problem, in places as far afield as Sierra Leone and western China, was the reemergence of longstanding cultural rivalries and the dissolution of national boundaries as regions redefine themselves along ethnic and historic lines."@en
  • "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 cultures he encountered responded to them. But as he traveled, talking to gun smugglers and government ministers, warlords and shantytown dwellers, he discovered that the real problem, in places as far afield as Sierra Leone and western China, was the reemergence of longstanding cultural rivalries and the dissolution of national boundaries as regions redefine themselves along ethnic and historic lines."
  • "Verslag van reizen naar Afrika, het Midden-Oosten en Azië."
  • "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."@en
  • "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."
  • "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, providing intimate portraits of their peoples."@en

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  • "世界的盡頭"
  • "The ends of the earth"@en
  • "The ends of the earth a journey at the dawn of the 21st journey"@en
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia ; a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"
  • "The ends of the earth : from Toto to turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"@en
  • "Shi jie de jin tou : zhong zu yu wen hua de bian jing zhi lu"
  • "The ends of the earth : from Toga to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia -- a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"@en
  • "The ends of the earth a journey at the dawn of the 21st century"@en
  • "Shi jie de jin tou : zhong zu yu wen hua de bian jing zhi lü"
  • "The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21th century"@en
  • "The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 20th century"@en
  • "Reis naar de einden der aarden"
  • "世界的盡頭 : 種族與文化的邊境之旅"
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia - a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"@en
  • "The ends of the earth from Togo to Turkmenistan, From Iran to Cambodia--a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"@en
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia - a journey at the dawn of the 21st century"@en
  • "Viaje a los confines de la Tierra"
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia : a journey at the frontiers of Anarchy"
  • "Reis naar de einden der aarde"
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia--a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"@en
  • "The ends of the earth a journey at the dawn of the 20th century"@en
  • "Viaje a los confines de la tierra"
  • "Viaje a los confines de la tierra"@es
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia : a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"
  • "The ends of the earth from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"
  • "Ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st"@en
  • "The Ends of the Earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century"
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia - a journey to the frontiers of arnachy"@en
  • "The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century"@en
  • "The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century"
  • "Shi jie de jin tou"
  • "The ends of the earth : From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a journey to the frontiers of anarchy"@en
  • "The ends of the Earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century"
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia-- a journey to the frontiers af anarchy"@en
  • "The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawnofthe 21st century"@en
  • "The ends of the earth : from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia-- a journey to the frontiers af anarchy"

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