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       American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301, (731)9884440|nSAN 
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100 1  Matloff, Judith,|eauthor. 
245 10 No friends but the mountains :|bdispatches from the 
       world's violent highlands /|cJudith Matloff. 
264  1 New York :|bBasic Books,|c[2017] 
300    viii, 253 pages :|bmaps ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520 2  "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
600 10 Matloff, Judith|xTravel. 
650  0 Military history, Modern|y21st century. 
650  0 Military history, Modern|y20th century. 
650  0 Uplands|xPolitical aspects|xHistory. 
650  0 Mountains|xPolitical aspects|xHistory. 
650  0 Mountain life|xPolitical aspects|xHistory. 
650  0 Civil war|xHistory. 
650  0 Violence|xHistory. 
650  0 Social conflict|xHistory. 
650  0 Ethnic conflict|xHistory. 
650  7 SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography.|2bisacsh 
650  7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International.|2bisacsh 
650  7 TRAVEL / Special Interest / General.|2bisacsh 
655  7 Travel writing.|2lcgft 
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