TY - BOOK AU - Kaplan,Robert D. TI - The ends of the earth: from Togo to Turkmenistan, from Iran to Cambodia-- a journey to the frontiers af anarchy SN - 9780679751236 (pbk.) : AV - DS10 .K345 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Vintage Departures/Vintage Books KW - Kaplan, Robert D., KW - Asia KW - Description and travel KW - Africa, West KW - Middle East N1 - Originally published: New York : Random House, c1996; Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-460) and index; West Africa: back to the dawn? --- The Nile Valley: the hollow pyramid --- Anatolia and the Caucasus: the earth's strategic core? --- The Iranian plateau: the earth's "soft centre" --- Central Asia: geographical destinies --- The Indian subcontinent and Indochina: the way of the future? ER -