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The Ends of the Earth (Vintage Departures) (Paperback)
by Kaplan (Author)
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  • Paperback: 496 pages
  • Publisher: Fodor's Travel Publications Inc.,U.S.; 1st Vintage Departures Ed edition (31 Dec 1998)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0679751238
  • ISBN-13: 978-0679751236
  • Product Dimensions: 20 x 13.2 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  (18 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 548,913 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
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The author describes his odyssey through some of the world's most troubled regions, where ancient cultural rivalries and traditional ethnic barriers threaten to reshape the world. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. Tour.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "...wearing wedding dresses as they kill..., 25 Oct 2000
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A previous reviewer made the following comment: "At times I wondered if his hersay stories like the one about members of a street gang in Africa wearing wedding dresses while they killed were actual events or just modern urban myths." It isn't an urban myth: this actuallly too place in Liberia at the start of the civil war in July/August of the year that Iraq invaded Kuwait. I remember it well because I saw bizzar pictures of fighters with dresses pulled over their uniforms or clothes. Sometimes they even sported wigs. BBC, Time or The Economist might have photographs on file. What I like about Kaplan is that he tells us the truths our civil society tries so desperately hard to hide, i.e. that life isn't a guaranteed little house with a white picket fense; that our Western lifestyle is limited to a very small percentage of the world's population; and that this lifestyle is generally (but not always) at the expense of the majority (inadvertantly or otherwise). What is trully frightening is that this balance will correct itself violently if no attempts are made to mitigate the differences in life styles across the globe. I honestly think that we are too far down our chosen path to do anthing about the anarchy that awaits us.
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