No Friends But the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands

Author/Contributor(s):	Matloff, Judith
Publisher:	Basic Books
Date:	03/07/2017
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

"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 [may not be able to] afford to ignore"--Amazon.com.