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"At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, Amanda Lindhout began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, and India. Emboldened by each adventure, she went on to Sudan, Syria, and warridden Afghanistan and Iraq, where she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, August 2008, she traveled to Somalia--"the most dangerous placed on earth." On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory--every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity--and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity"-- Page 4 of cover
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House In The Sky, Amanda Lindhout
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2014
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- Titolo
- House In The Sky
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Amanda Lindhout
- Editore
- Simon & Schuster US
- Pubblicato
- 2014
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 1451645619
- ISBN13
- 9781451645613
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Mappe e viaggi, Esoterismo e religione, Storie vere, Biografie, Viaggi, Temi religiosi, Religione, Autobiografie e memorie, Giornalismo narrativo, Narrativa di viaggio, Africa, Islam, 21° Secolo, Rapimenti, Letteratura canadese, Somalia, Estremismo, Riscatto
- Prima pubblicazione
- 2013
- Titolo originale
- A House in the Sky
- Valutazione
- 4,35 su 5
- Descrizione
- "At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, Amanda Lindhout began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, and India. Emboldened by each adventure, she went on to Sudan, Syria, and warridden Afghanistan and Iraq, where she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, August 2008, she traveled to Somalia--"the most dangerous placed on earth." On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory--every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity--and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. A House in the Sky is the searingly intimate story of an intrepid young woman and her search for compassion in the face of unimaginable adversity"-- Page 4 of cover