No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
by Judith Matloff
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"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 show more 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"-- show lessTags
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Judith Matloff teaches conflict reporting at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. She has pioneered safety training seminars for journalists, specifically women, helping hundreds of people feel confident to face an increasingly dangerous world. Her stories about war and violence have appeared in numerous publications, including the New York show more Times Magazine, the Economist, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. Matloff's work has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation, the Fulbright Scholar Program, the Logan Non-fiction Fellowship, and the Hoover Institution. She lives in New York City with her family. show less
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- Canonical title
- No Friends but the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands
- Original publication date
- 2017
- Important places
- Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France; Albania; Mexico; Colombia; Nepal; Chechnya, Russian Federation (show all 10); Kashmir; Vermont, USA; Norway; Switzerland
- First words
- I met Jean Lassalle and Mario Conejo in a ballroom in the Pyrenees, at a concert of Andean pipe music in the baroque town hall of Pau, a city with a fairy-tale castle surrounded by majestic peaks.
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Anthropology, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Travel
- DDC/MDS
- 355.009 — Society, government, & culture Public administration & military science The Military - Land, Air & Sea / Warfare Biography And History
- LCC
- D862.5 .M38 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania History (General)
- BISAC
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- 37
- Popularity
- 782,342
- Rating
- (3.88)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
