A House in the sky: A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything [Audiobook] download free by Sara Corbett
- Listen audiobook: A House in the sky: A Memoir of a Kidnapping That Changed Everything
- Author: Sara Corbett
- Release date: 2014/3/14
- Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Biography
- ISBN: 9780670920860
- Rating: 8.1 of 10
- Votes: 638
- Review by: Zahir Mares
- Review rating: 9.92 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/11/5
- Duration: 4H52M11S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-20
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 SLS, Apple Lossless, MOD, MP3, WAV, WMA, MPEG4, FLAC (compression TGZ, RAR, BZ, ZIP)
- Total pages original book: 384
- Includes a PDF summary of 36 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 27M18S (7.2 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: A House in the Sky is the dramatic and redemptive memoir of Amanda Lindhout, 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, 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. For fans of the award-winning blockbuster Captain Phillips and readers of Kate McCann's Madeleine, Natasha Kampusch's 3,096 Days and Greg Mortenson's Three Cups of Tea.Amanda Lindhout is the founder of the Global Enrichment Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports development, aid and education initiatives in Somalia and Kenya. For more information, visit Amandalindhout.com and globalenrichmentfoundation.comSara Corbett is a contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine. Her work has also appeared in National Geographic; Elle; Outside; O, the Oprah magazine; Esquire; and Mother Jones.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Memoirs
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 10.89 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x23mm
- Weight: 266g
- Printed by: VIKING
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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