395 records matched your query       

Author:

Matloff, Judith, author.

Title:

No friends but the mountains : dispatches from the world's violent highlands / Judith Matloff.

Publisher:

Basic Books,

Copyright Date:

2017

Description:

viii, 253 pages : map ; 25 cm

Subject:

Matloff, Judith--Travel.
Military history, Modern--21st century.
Military history, Modern--20th century.
Uplands--History.--History.
Mountains--History.--History.
Mountain life--History.--History.
Civil war--History.
Violence--History.
Social conflict--History.
Ethnic conflict--History.
Travel writing.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: A Towering Problem : Everywhere: 200 to 20,000 feet -- One for One : The Dinaric Alps: 9000 feet -- Our Land is Our Land : Sierra Madre: 4000 to 8500 feet -- Holding the High Ground of Nothing : The Andes: 8500-18,864 feet -- The Dammed : Himalayas: 3000 to 29,000 feet -- Mountain Thistles : The Caucasus: 5559 to 18,000 feet -- On the Existential Border : Kashmir: 5200 to 16,000 feet -- The Gods of the Valleys Are Not the Gods of the Hills : Part One: The Green Mountains and the Hindu Kush: 4393 to 10,000 feet; Part Two: The Arctic: Lyngen Alps: 6014 feet -- Canton-ment : The Pyrenees (3500 to 11,168 feet) and the Swiss Alps (4,239 to 15,203 feet).

ISBN:

046509788X (hardback)
9780465097883 (hardback)

LCCN:

2016043569

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)