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War Is In The Mountains: Violence In The World's High Places

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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 those in the lowlands cannot afford to ignore. Travelling 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, The War is in the Mountains is an indelible portrait of the conflicts that have unexpectedly shaped our world.

Product Overview
ISBN 9780715652718
Categories History, MIXnMATCH, New Arrivals, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities
Author(s) Judith Matloff
Publisher Overlook Press
Pages 272
Format Paperback
Dimensions 19.8cm x 3.5cm x 12.8cm
Weight 0.255 kg