The Ends of the Earth: A Journey at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century
Robert D. Kaplan, author of the acclaimedBalkan Ghosts, travels from the countries  of West Africa and the fundamentalist enclaves of Egypt and Iran to the  culturally explosive lands of Central Asia, India, Pakistan, and Southeast Asia with hardly more than a notebook and a backpack.  The result is an  intimate portrait of the devastated parts of the world whose cultural  disasters - like those in Rwanda, Bosnia, and Chechnya - will dominate  our attention and remake the world of tomorrow.