No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands /

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 di...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Matloff, Judith (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Basic Books, [2017]
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. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International. TRAVEL / Special Interest / General.

Table of 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.