A house in the sky
Record details
- ISBN: 9781490601793
- ISBN: 1490601791
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (1 sound file, 13 hr.) - Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2013], ℗2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Recording originally produced by Simon & Schuster Audio, p2013. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Amanda Lindhout. |
Source of Description Note: | Compact disc version record. |
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Subject: | Lindhout, Amanda Journalists -- Canada -- Biography Hostages -- Somalia -- Biography Somalia -- History -- 1991- Lindhout, Amanda Hostages Journalists Canada Somalia |
Genre: | Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. Biography. History. Audiobooks. |
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The dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world' s most beautiful and remote places, its most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity-- an exquisitely written story of courage, resilience, and grace As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress in Calgary, Alberta, she 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, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia--" the most dangerous place 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 converts to Islam as a survival tactic, receives " wife lessons" from one of her captors, and risks a daring escape. Moved between a series of abandoned houses in the desert, she 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, being tortured. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, 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.