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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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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
"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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Don't buy this book thinking it's merely a travelogue of some of the world's poorer and lesser-known nations. (In fact, if that's all you're looking for, then I highly recommend Pico Iyer's Falling off the Map instead.) No, it's a cleverly disguised sociopolitical analysis, but unlike most such works, it's refreshing in that Kaplan freely admits his observations are subjective and possibly wrong. But that's exactly the problem. Despite physically travelling to all these destinations, Kaplan seems to spend precious little time actually TALKING with real citizenry in most places. Instead he whisks from Western hotels in the capital to meetings with various pols and officials before scuttling off to the next country, sometimes just days later. And therein lies the failure of an otherwise worthy effort from an outstanding writer: the superficiality of most of his experiences in these places. Give him a few days in a country, coupled with a bit of background reading and perhaps a few conversations with experts at home, and Kaplan feels justified in making sweeping generalizations about where these nations have been, and where they are going. Had Kaplan just stopped country-hopping and stayed in one region for a longer time, I think his conclusions would have been much improved. A side note: having travelled to a number of these countries (as one of the "backpackers" that Kaplan scornfully derides throughout the book), his constant dramatizing of the mundane grows tedious after a while...I think the only person surprised that the third world can be dirty, smelly, and unpredictable is Kaplan himself.
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Think that all the "in-betweener" regions and remote cultures of the globe are of marginal import in the 2000s? Dream on! This book will shake you up and get you scared straight with its superb reporting.
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Robert D. Kaplan paints a very scary picture of most of the world. Unforunately, I think he is right. The United States, Cananda, Western Europe, and Japan...we are the exceptions. The parts of the world that are relatively stable. Kaplan shows through his journies to different parts of the third world the coming anarchy. Kaplan shows too clearly what poverty, crime, religion, civil war, etc. are doing to the rest of the world. Kaplan is giving us a warning and a clear reason why we can never be isolationalist. We must do whatever we can to stop the anarchy that characterizes much of the world from spreading too far. This book is a great read and quite eye-opening.
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social science travel lit
Basially, in "The Ends of the Earth", Kaplan employs the same finely-honed writing technique that he used to good effect on the topics of Yugoslavia and North America,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Dezember 1999 von ChairmanLuedtke
pretty hot
It made me bust a nut in my pants every time I read a word. So at the end of the book I was in a sticky situation.
Am 20. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
A nice read, though a bit too shallow and wandering
Although some parts are of great interest, I was surprised at how much time the writer uses getting a hotel or waiting in customs. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. August 1999 von DBryan9@aol.com
Don't be fooled into thinking this is a simple travel book..
It seems aparent that many people look at this book thinking it is a travel book for possible vacationers. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
a journey into the heart of the future
As Kaplan writes in Balkan Ghosts "The past is yesterday's present and the future tomorrow's past". Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Mai 1999 von Hillel Soifer
A Good Use of Reading Time
Although Kaplan attempts to style this dense book as a semi-linear travel narrative, it is actually more of an heavily footnoted eyewitness account of the dramatic transitions... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 29. April 1999 von A. Ross
Beltway Talking Heads book disguised as travel narrative
I was severely disappointed. Other than the Togo sequence early in the book, Kaplan isn't interested in "travel" at all; he hardly ever talks to people on the streets,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. April 1999 veröffentlicht
I think this book is a classic example of modern imperialism
I don't disagree with Kaplan when he is reporting what he actually sees, which I think is well done. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 2. April 1999 veröffentlicht
A good miserable book
Well crafted, insightful, wretchingly poetic, and horribly realistic. The ends of the earth, a slice of the misery from which Americans and other fortunate individuals in ordered... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Februar 1999 von shihjeff@sas.upenn.edu
A competent survey of the world's nastier places.
Robert Kaplan leads you through an intelligent survey of some of the globe's nastier places. This is good book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. November 1998 veröffentlicht
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