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 strikin...
| Main Author: | Matloff, Judith (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Basic Books,
[2017]
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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.