I had a free weekend, so I was able to go over the book.
First, some technicalities:
- the book has 10 chapters, and each one is more or less independet. You can freely read about Korea first, then jump to India etc
- I suggest to read it either on computer or with computer on hand. In every chapter, I’ve spent a good amount of time google maps’ing the locations he mentions as this gives a much better understanding of what he’s talking about
- each chapter starts with a very brief history of the region, to give context to the arising conflicts
Ok, now the book. I found it very light, chill reading. Due to the chapters structure, you can easily pick it anytime, dig into one and have a nice evening. Almost like… longer blog post ;). As for the content, I have a little mixed feelings. For the chapters I knew some, I found the information a little shallow. At the same time I realized for the ones where I knew not too much, it was very intersting read. So overall I’d say recommended :D.
The surpising thing I learned is how much of the conflicts right now steams from the past where there were new borders created artifically by the winners (for example of WW2) that didn’t really care about cultural and historical basis of these borders.
There were a couple of interesting tidbits of information, that makes me look at the map slighltly different now (and they are probably basic for anyone interested in politics, but for me who usually avoid it, there were new), for example Tibet as main source of water, or Arctic melting caps on income of Panama.
Cool, light read 
