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Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
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Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization

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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.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateJul 7, 2010
ISBN9781608192397
Falling off the Edge: Travels Through the Dark Heart of Globalization
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Alex Perry

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, and covering locations from Afghanistan to Burma. He has won several journalism awards, and his report from the battle at Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan was featured in The Best American Magazine Writing 2002. In 2004, an article on Nepal's civil war was runner-up in the South Asia Journalism Association's Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Story. Perry has also contributed to several other award-winning Time articles and is the author of Falling Off the Edge. He is married with two daughters and lives with his family in Cape Town.

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    This book is a must-read for anyone who really wants to understand the negative aspects of globalization on millions of individuals throughout the world. The author is an award-winning correspondent who establishes rapport with many people and reports on them as individuals, contrasting their experience with reports of the miracles that globalization accomplishes for national economies. Besides the depressing individual stories cited by a previous reviewer, there is so much valuable information, insight and unique conclusions.
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    This is an important topic, and "Falling Off the Edge" makes its point very well. But the endless examples and stories of death, misery, and destruction become tiresome and repetitive. I gave up 2/3 of the way through. I'd suggest reading the first bit of it, but unless you really enjoy doom and gloom, don't go through with it.

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