The Resource No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands, Judith Matloff
No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands, Judith Matloff
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- 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 253 pages
- Contents
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- 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
- Isbn
- 9780465097883
- Label
- No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands
- Title
- No friends but the mountains
- Title remainder
- dispatches from the world's violent highlands
- Statement of responsibility
- Judith Matloff
- Subject
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- Matloff, Judith -- Travel
- Military history, Modern -- 20th century
- Military history, Modern -- 21st century
- Mountain life -- Political aspects | History
- Mountains -- Political aspects | History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International
- Civil war -- History
- Social conflict -- History
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / General
- Travel writing
- Uplands -- Political aspects | History
- Violence -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
- Ethnic conflict -- History
- Language
- eng
- 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"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Biography type
- contains biographical information
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Matloff, Judith
- Dewey number
- 355.009/04
- Illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- D862.5
- LC item number
- .M38 2017
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Matloff, Judith
- Military history, Modern
- Military history, Modern
- Uplands
- Mountains
- Mountain life
- Civil war
- Violence
- Social conflict
- Ethnic conflict
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / General
- Label
- No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands, Judith Matloff
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 1713809
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465097883
- Lccn
- 2016043569
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1713809
- (OCoLC)952369545
- Label
- No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands, Judith Matloff
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- 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
- Control code
- 1713809
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- viii, 253 pages
- Isbn
- 9780465097883
- Lccn
- 2016043569
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- maps
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1713809
- (OCoLC)952369545
Subject
- Matloff, Judith -- Travel
- Military history, Modern -- 20th century
- Military history, Modern -- 21st century
- Mountain life -- Political aspects | History
- Mountains -- Political aspects | History
- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International
- Civil war -- History
- Social conflict -- History
- TRAVEL / Special Interest / General
- Travel writing
- Uplands -- Political aspects | History
- Violence -- History
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
- Ethnic conflict -- History
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