{"product_id":"no-friends-but-the-mountains-dispatches-from-the-worlds-violent-highlands-9780465097883","title":"No Friends But the Mountains: Dispatches from the World's Violent Highlands","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Judith Matloff\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: World - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A work of political travel writing in the vein of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Robert Kaplan, \u003ci\u003eNo Friends but the Mountains \u003c\/i\u003eis an indelible portrait of the conflicts that have unexpectedly shaped our world.","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45356218613911,"sku":"9780465097883","price":2826.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780465097883.webp?v=1767105613","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/no-friends-but-the-mountains-dispatches-from-the-worlds-violent-highlands-9780465097883","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}