false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166254518m/10662.jpg 10662 4 "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. 733826 1996 The Ends of the Earth: From Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia, a Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy total:251|5:87|4:108|3:48|2:8|1:0| 251 1027 378 34 5 1 false false Sat Dec 08 13:37:45 -0800 2007 Mon Sep 24 06:50:57 -0700 2007 Sat Dec 08 13:37:31 -0800 2007
A journey through parts of Africa, the Mideast and Asia, it chronicles the depths to which many of the world's peoples, nations, and their environments have sunk, with little to give hope for their renewal or survival.

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