The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century /
Robert D. Kaplan.
- First edition.
- xiv, 476 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-460) and index.
Preface -- West Africa: Back to the Dawn? -- An Unsentimental Journey -- Sierra Leone: From Graham Greene to Thomas Malthus? -- Along the Gulf of Guinea -- The Nile Valley: The Hollow Pyramid -- "Oriental Despotism" -- Islamic Coketown -- Voices of the "Tormented City" -- Anatolia and the Caucasus: The Earth's Strategic Core? -- "The Still Point of the Turning World" -- Mother Lode -- By Caspian Shores -- The Iranian Plateau: The Earth's "Soft Centre" -- A Country of Flowers and Nightingales -- The Revolution of "the Hand" -- Bazaar States -- Qom's Last Tremors -- The Heart of Persia -- The Tower of Qabus -- Central Asia: Geographical Destinies -- Russian Outpost -- Pre-Byzantine Turks and Civilization Clashes -- Clean Toilets and the Legacy of Empires -- China: "Super-Chaos" and "Physical-Social" Theory -- Strategic Hippie Routes -- The Roof of the World -- The Last Map -- The Indian Subcontinent and Indochina: The Way of the Future? -- Journey in a Plague Year -- Rishi Valley and Human Ingenuity -- Bangkok: Environmental and Sexual Limits -- Laos, or Greater Siam? -- Cambodia: Back to Sierra Leone? -- Jungle Temples and the "Milk of Chaos" -- One Death at the Edge of the Earth -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. Pt. II. 4. 5. 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. Pt. IV. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. Pt. V. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Pt. VI. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29.
"Learner English is a well-established and successful reference book for teachers of British English. This new edition builds on the success of the original book. It has been rewritten and extended to provide information on the typical problems and error-patterns of a wide range of learners of English from particular language backgrounds. It compares the relevant features of the students' own language with English, helping teachers to predict and understand the problems that students have. The new book has twenty-two chapters dealing with learners who speak Dutch-Flemish, Scandinavian languages (except Finnish), German, French, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Polish, Farsi, Arabic, Turkish, South Asian languages (with a separate chapter on Dravidian languages), West African languages, Swahili, Malay/Indonesian, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Thai. An audio cassette and audio CD are available separately. These contain authentic examples of the various accents described in the book .; ; ; RECORD: .b10882133; URL: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random0412/95024653.html; HTML TOC:; ; ; ; Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95024653; ; ; ; ; ; Publisher description for The ends of the earth : a journey at the dawn of the 21st century / Robert D. Kaplan.; ; ; Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog; The bestselling author of Balkan Ghosts takes readers on a journey through troubled regions where age-old cultural rivalries threaten to reshape the world of tomorrow. From West Africa to the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, the people who will remake our world tomorrow are profiled."--Publisher description.
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Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- --Travel--Asia. Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- --Travel--Africa, West. Kaplan, Robert D., 1952- --Travel--Middle East.
Asia--Description and travel Africa, West--Description and travel Middle East--Description and travel