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Robert Kalpan: The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy It's a part travel book, a part geopolitical analysis. In the hindsight, Kaplan was
by dirtyaura 9y ago
Robert Kalpan: The Ends of the Earth: A Journey to the Frontiers of Anarchy
It's a part travel book, a part geopolitical analysis. In the hindsight, Kaplan was probably wrong on many things, and his views were US and West centric, but personally it was inspiring read, a travel book that was much more than a travel book.
- clock_tower 9y agoNot a bad idea -- I've only read his book on the formerly-Ottoman world (_Eastward to Tartary_, I think), but this sounds worth looking up. Have you come across Tony Horwitz? He's goofier than Kaplan, but his writing scratches the same itch.