Eastward to Tartary: Travels in the Balkans, the Middle East,
and the Caucasus
Robert D. Kaplan
In his bestseller Balkan Ghosts, Kaplan introduced us to a
region
in
turbulent upheaval. Here he fills in the rest of the story. Like
Balkan
Ghosts, his emphasis is on people and history and on the shape of
things
to come. He takes us through Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel before
striking out east into the Caucasus and Central Asia--an area he describes
as the Balkans of the future: explosive, oil-rich, and strategically
important, the locus of a new fault line between East and West.
This summary is courtesy of McNaughton Books