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Author Matloff, Judith, author.

Title No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands / Judith Matloff.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2017]

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  355.009 MATLOFF    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  355 MATLOFF    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  355.009 MAT    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  355.009 MAT    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  355.009 MATLOFF    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  355.009 MATLOFF    Check Shelf
Description viii, 253 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.
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.
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject 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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.
TRAVEL / Special Interest / General.
Genre/Form Travel writing.
ISBN 9780465097883 (hardcover)
046509788X (hardcover)
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