000586066 000__ 03186cam\a2200397\i\4500 000586066 001__ 586066 000586066 005__ 20210515021840.0 000586066 008__ 130516s2013\\\\nyu\\\\\\\\\\\000\0aeng\\ 000586066 010__ $$a 2013016015 000586066 020__ $$a9781451645606$$qhardcover 000586066 020__ $$a1451645600$$qhardcover 000586066 020__ $$a9781451645613$$qpaperback 000586066 020__ $$a1451645619$$qpaperback 000586066 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn816512740 000586066 035__ $$a586066 000586066 040__ $$aDLC$$beng$$erda$$cDLC$$dYDXCP$$dBTCTA$$dBDX$$dOCLCO$$dJBL$$dWIQ$$dIK2$$dABG$$dCDX$$dNKM 000586066 042__ $$apcc 000586066 043__ $$an-cn---$$af-so--- 000586066 049__ $$aISEA 000586066 05000 $$aPN4913.L495$$bA3 2013 000586066 08200 $$a070.92$$aB$$223 000586066 1001_ $$aLindhout, Amanda. 000586066 24512 $$aA house in the sky :$$ba memoir /$$cAmanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett. 000586066 250__ $$aFirst Scribner hardcover edition. 000586066 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bScribner,$$c2013. 000586066 300__ $$a373 pages ;$$c24 cm 000586066 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent 000586066 337__ $$aunmediated$$2rdamedia 000586066 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier 000586066 520__ $$a"The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could travel the globe. As a child, she escaped a violent household by paging through National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. Now she would see those places for real. She backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each experience, went on to travel solo across Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a TV reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia--"the most dangerous place on earth"--to report on the fighting there. On her fourth day in the country, she and her photojournalist companion were abducted. An astoundingly intimate and harrowing account of Lindhout's fifteen months as a captive, A House in the Sky illuminates the psychology, motivations, and desperate extremism of her young guards and the men in charge of them. She is kept in chains, nearly starved, and subjected to unthinkable abuse. She survives by imagining herself in a "house in the sky," looking down at the woman shackled below, and finding strength and hope in the power of her own mind. Lindhout's decision, upon her release, to counter the violence she endured by founding an organization to help the Somali people rebuild their country through education is a wrenching testament to the capacity of the human spirit and an astonishing portrait of the power of compassion and forgiveness"--$$cProvided by publisher. 000586066 60010 $$aLindhout, Amanda. 000586066 650_0 $$aJournalists$$zCanada$$vBiography. 000586066 650_0 $$aHostages$$zSomalia$$vBiography. 000586066 651_0 $$aSomalia$$xHistory$$y1991- 000586066 7001_ $$aCorbett, Sara. 000586066 85200 $$bgen$$hPN4913.L495$$iA3$$i2013 000586066 85642 $$3Cover image$$uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/1247/606/9781451645606/image/lgcover.9781451645606.jpg 000586066 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:586066$$pGLOBAL_SET 000586066 980__ $$aBIB 000586066 980__ $$aBOOK