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Matloff, Judith, author.
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Matloff, Judith -- Travel.
Military history, Modern -- 21st century.
Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
Uplands -- Political aspects -- History.
Mountains -- Political aspects -- History.
Mountain life -- Political aspects -- History.
Civil war -- History.
Violence -- History.
Social conflict -- History.
Ethnic conflict -- History.
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No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands / Judith Matloff.
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Matloff, Judith, author.
New York : Basic Books, c2017.
Subjects
Matloff, Judith -- Travel.
Military history, Modern -- 21st century.
Military history, Modern -- 20th century.
Uplands -- Political aspects -- History.
Mountains -- Political aspects -- History.
Mountain life -- Political aspects -- History.
Civil war -- History.
Violence -- History.
Social conflict -- History.
Ethnic conflict -- History.
ISBN:
9780465097883 (hardcover) :
046509788X (hardcover)
Description:
viii, 253 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Contents:
Introduction. A towering problem -- One for one : the Dinaric Alps -- Our land is our land : Sierra Madre -- Holding the high ground of nothing : the Andes -- The dammed : Himalayas -- Mountain thistles : the Caucasus -- On the existential border : Kashmir -- The gods of the valleys are not the gods of the hills. Part one: the Green Mountains and the Hindu Kush ; Part two: the Lyngen Alps -- Cantonment (contentment) : the Pyrenees and the Swiss Alps.
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"A veteran war correspondent journeys to remote mountain communities across the globe--from Albania and Chechnya to Nepal and Colombia--to investigate why so many conflicts occur at great heights. Mountainous regions are home to only ten percent of the world's population yet host a strikingly disproportionate share of the world's conflicts. Mountains provide a natural refuge for those who want to elude authority, and their remoteness has allowed archaic practices to persist well into our globalized era. As Judith Matloff shows, the result is a combustible mix we in the lowlands cannot afford to ignore. Traveling to conflict zones across the world, she introduces us to Albanian teenagers involved in ancient blood feuds; Mexican peasants hunting down violent poppy growers; and Jihadists who have resisted the Russian military for decades. At every stop, Matloff reminds us that the drugs, terrorism, and instability cascading down the mountainside affect us all. A work of political travel writing in the vein of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Robert Kaplan, No Friends but the Mountains is an indelible portrait of the conflicts that have unexpectedly shaped our world"--
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Hawaii State Library
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355.00904 Matloff
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