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.
No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands / Judith Matloff.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, [2017]
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G 2017/2097
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English
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Physical content
viii, 253 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
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...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, [2017]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
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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. Mountai...
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No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands / Judith Matloff.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-238) and index.
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G 2017/2097
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74VKVad0jrbg
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9780465097883 hardcover
046509788X hardcover
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355.00904
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991024099953102626
