Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East, and the Caucasus [Idioma Inglés] - Hardcover

Kaplan, Robert D.

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ISBN 10: 0375502726 ISBN 13: 9780375502729

Verlag: Random House Inc, 2000

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the Ottoman empire stretched from Hungary to the Gulf of Aden to the Caspian Sea. Informed by a lifetime of travel and exploration, Eastward to Tartary takes you on a spellbinding journey into the heart of that still-unsettled region, a journey over land and through history.

Seven years ago, Robert Kaplan published a book on an obscure corner of Eastern Europe that many Americans had never heard of. That book, Balkan Ghosts, became a classic of travel writing, a landmark work whose eloquence is matched by its influence. Eastward to Tartary is in part a sequel. Kaplan takes us through Turkey, across the Fertile Crescent, and into the volatile, oil-rich lands of the Caucasus and Central Asia, a region he describes as the Balkans of the future--explosive, strategically important, the new fault line between East and West.

Through dramatic stories of unforgettable characters past and present, Kaplan illuminates the tragic history of the lands in which he travels. He ventures from

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• Verlag: Random House Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0375502726
• ISBN 13: 9780375502729
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364