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First Vintage Departures edition

New York : Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc., 1997

xiv, 476 stran : mapy ; 21 cm

ISBN 0-679-75123-8 (brožováno)

Vintage departures

Obsahuje bibliografie, bibliografické odkazy a rejstřík

001653678

Contents // Preface xiii // PART I West Africa: Back to the Dawn? i // i An Unsentimental Journey 3 // 2 Sierra Leone: From Graham Greene to Thomas Malthus? 32 // 3 Along the Gulf of Guinea 70 // PART 11 The Nile Valley: The Hollow Pyramid 89 // 4 "Oriental Despotism” 91 // 5 Islamic Coketown 101 // 6 Voices of the "Tormented City” 119 // part in Anatolia and the Caucasus: // The Earth as Strategic Core? 127 // 7 "The Still Point of the Turning World” 129 // 8 Mother Lode 142 // 9 By Caspian Shores 163 // xii / Contents // PART iv The Iranian Plateau: // The Earth’s "Soft Centre" 173 // 10 A Country of Flowers and Nightingales 175 // II The Revolution of "the Hand” 188 // 12 Bazaar States 199 // 13 Qom’s Last Tremors 215 // 14 The Heart of Persia 225 // 15 The Tower of Qabus 237 // part v Central Asia: Geographical Destinies 243 // 16 Russian Outpost 245 // 17 Pre-Byzantine Turks and Civilization Clashes 256 // 18 Clean Toilets and the Legacy of Empires 273 // 19 China: "Super-Chaos” and "Physical-Social” Theory 290 // 20 Strategic Hippie Routes 302 // 21 The Roof of the World 312 // 22 The LastMap 325 // part VI The Indian Subcontinent and Indochina: // The Way of the Futures 339 // 23 Journey in a Plague Year 341 // 24 Rishi Valley and Human Ingenuity 354 // 25 Bangkok: Environmental and Sexual Limits 369 // 26 Laos, or Greater Siam? 390 // 27 Cambodia: Back to Sierra Leone? 401 // 28 Jungle Temples and the "Milk of Chaos” 421

// 29 One Death at the Edge of the Earth 429 // Acknowledgments 439 // Bibliography 443 // Index 461