Falling off the Edge
Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
If the world is flat, as Thomas Friedman says, then arent some people going to be falling off the edge? Award-winning Time Magazine correspondent Alex Perry (China, India, and Africa) takes us on an unforgettable journey to some of the planets most remote and dangerous places to explore the sharp end of globalization. Combining sharp analysis with breathtaking frontline reporting, Perry's quest takes readers from Maoist rebels in Nepal to Indian suicide bombers and Indonesian pirates. We meet Chinese organ harvesters, Bombay billionaires, killer cops and pygmy Africans living on a remote island in the Indian Ocean. And in a riveting introduct…
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- ISBN: 978-1-60819-239-7
- EAN: 9781608192397
- Produktnummer: 13887877
- Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'629 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Abbildungen: colour illustrations
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Alex Perry is TIME's Africa Bureau Chief, based in Cape Town. From 2002 to 2006, he was South Asia bureau chief, based in New Delhi, covering India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan and the Maldives, as well as Central Asia and Burma. He joined TIME as a staff writer and travel editor based in Hong Kong, China, in February 2001.
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Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
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