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Moore, Michael Scott.
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Moore, Michael Scott.
Kidnapping victims -- Somalia.
Kidnapping -- Somalia.
Hostages -- Somalia.
Pirates -- Somalia.
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Moore, Michael Scott.
Moore, Michael Scott.
Kidnapping victims -- Somalia.
Kidnapping -- Somalia.
Hostages -- Somalia.
Pirates -- Somalia.
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The desert and the sea :
977
days
captive
on the
Somali
pirate
coast
/ Michael Scott Moore.
by
Moore, Michael Scott.
Harper Wave,, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2018.
Call #:
364.154092 M823d
Subjects
Moore, Michael Scott.
Kidnapping victims -- Somalia.
Kidnapping -- Somalia.
Hostages -- Somalia.
Pirates -- Somalia.
ISBN:
9780062449177
Alternate title:
977
days
captive
on the
Somali
pirate
coast
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
451 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes glossary of names.
Contents:
The rumor kitchen -- Underworld -- Living in civilization keeps us civilized -- The ambiguous Asian fishing boat -- Flight -- No God but God -- The hostage cookbook -- Stronger than dirt -- Fugue.
Summary:
"In January 2012, having covered a
Somali
pirate
trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International--and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting--Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held
captive
by
Somali
pirates. Subjected to conditions that break even the strongest spirits--physical injury, starvation, isolation, terror--Moore's survival is a testament to his indomitable strength of mind. In September 2014, after
977
days
, he walked free when his ransom was put together by the help of several US and German institutions, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mother. Yet Moore's own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Caught between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, and the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that surrounded him--the economics and history of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various faces of Islam--and places his ordeal in the context of the larger political and historical issues."--Page [2] of cover.
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