Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
Jul 2010 · Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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If the world is flat, as Thomas Friedman says, then aren't 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 planet's 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 introduction, Perry presents us with some of the finest war reporting ever to come out of the war on terror. The result of this extraordinary journey is as unexpected as it is dramatic. In his quest to uncover the edges of globalization, Perry ends up discovering its dark heart.
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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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