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Copyright © 2018 by Tim Marshall
Originally published in Great Britain in 2018 by Elliott and Thompson Limited
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First Scribner hardcover edition October 2018
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Jacket Photographs: Map © Roripond/iStock/Getty Images; Barbed Wire © Martin Barraud/Ojo Images/Getty Images; Fence © Fredex8/iStock/Getty Images; Rusted Metal © Tachit Choosringam/Eyeem/Getty Images; Bricks © Charles Oc. Cecil/Age Fotostock/Getty Images
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available.
ISBN 978-1-5011-8390-4
ISBN 978-1-5011-8392-8 (ebook)
Picture credits: Pages 10–11: iStock.com/real444; pages 38–39: Herika Martinez/AFP/Getty Images; pages 70–71: iStock.com/Joel Carillet; pages 98–99: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/Stringer/Getty Images; pages 122–23: STRDEL/AFP/Getty Images; pages 154–55: Stefano Montesi/Corbis News/Getty Images; pages 182–83: Washington Post/Getty Images; pages 218–19: Epics/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.
Sources for maps: Page 19 and 24: Economist/2010 China census; page 47: Openstreetmap.org; page 59: Pew Research Center; page 106 and 107: CRS, Pew Research Center, CIA World Factbook; page 136: Diercke International Atlas; page 165: John Bartholomew & Co.; page 235: BBC.
Maps: JP Map Graphics Ltd.