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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
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- Title
- House In The Sky
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Amanda Lindhout
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster US
- Released
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 1451645619
- ISBN13
- 9781451645613
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Religion & Spirituality, Biographies, Travel, Religious Topics, Religion, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Creative Nonfiction, Travelogues, Africa, Islam, 21st Century, Kidnappings, Canadian Literature, Extremism, Somalia, Ransom
- First published
- 2013
- Original title
- A House in the Sky
- Rating
- 4.35 out of 5
- Description
- "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