3 records matched your query
03014aam a2200289 a 4500 001 5B58EA78665611E9B613715097128E48 003 SILO 005 20190424010023 008 190409s2013 000 0 eng u 020 $a 1451645627 020 $a 9781451645620 (ebook)\1451645619\9781451645613\1451645600\9781451645606 040 $a Amazon $d SILO 100 1 $a Lindhout, Amanda. 245 12 $a A house in the sky : $b a memoir $c Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett. 250 $a First Scribner hardcover edition. 264 1 $a New York $b Scribner $c 2013. 300 $a 373 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a "The spectacularly dramatic and redemptive memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her to the world's most imperiled and perilous countries, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity--a beautifully written story of courage, resilience, and grace. At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble hometown to the big city and worked as a cocktail waitress, 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 went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia--"the most dangerous place on earth"--to report on the fighting there. On her fourth day in the country, she and her photojournalist companion were abducted. A House in the Sky illuminates the psychology, motivations, and desperate extremism of Lindhout's young guards and the men in charge of them. She is kept in chains, nearly starved, and subjected to horrific abuse. She survives by imagining herself in a "house in the sky," finding strength and hope in the power of her own mind. Lindhout's decision to counter the violence she endured by founding an organization to help educate Somali people women is a moving testament to the power of compassion and forgiveness"-- 520 $a "The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could travel the globe. As a child, she escaped a violent household by paging through National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. Now she would see th 650 $a Hostages $x Biography. $x Biography. 650 $a Journalists $x Biography. $x Biography. 650 $a Lindhout, Amanda. 650 $a Somalia $x 1991- $x 1991- 700 $a Corbett, Sara. aut 941 $a 1 952 $l JDPC145 $d 20190424012952.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5B58EA78665611E9B613715097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search