Title: The Desert and the Sea Pdf 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast
Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival.
In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates. Subjected to conditions that break even the strongest spirits—physical injury, starvation, isolation, terror—Moore’s survival is a testament to his indomitable strength of mind. In September 2014, after 977 days, he walked free when his ransom was put together by the help of several US and German institutions, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mother.
Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Caught between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, and the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that surrounded him—the economics and history of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various faces of Islam—and places his ordeal in the context of the larger political and historical issues.
A sort of Catch-22 meets Black Hawk Down, The Desert and the Sea is written with dark humor, candor, and a journalist’s clinical distance and eye for detail. Moore offers an intimate and otherwise inaccessible view of life as we cannot fathom it, brilliantly weaving his own experience as a hostage with the social, economic, religious, and political factors creating it. The Desert and the Sea is wildly compelling and a book that will take its place next to titles like Den of Lions and Even Silence Has an End.
Exciting and fast read Great read. Kinda dragged on but we'll written. I have to admit I kept thinking of how the author out both his mother and the government in peril to get this book writen. Just seems the actions were intentional.Years of living as hostages of Somali pirates I enjoyed the story, the pirate tale, the hostages’ plight and most of all the sparks of humanity the author noticed and conveyed. No one was all bad nor greedy, no one was without fault (except the mom). The outlandish conditions of the hostages were astounding, hardly believable. The many languages, countries and beliefs of the hostages at first a difficulty, but became less divisive. The outcome was bittersweet and asks us to notice and care about hostages and the Somalis who find being pirates their best options.Mildly Disappointing Clearly the author had no business going into Somalia just to get a story of some sort. I felt little pity for him when he gets kidnapped. HIs account of the experience is not very satisfying, and I am not sure why. I felt for starters the book is too long, many of the individual aspects of his captivity, dreadful though they were were also redundant. I found my self skimming a lot. I did learn some things like today the kidnappers in Somalia can rather easily via cellphone talk to the victim's family anywhere in the world. Who would have thought. I think my main complaint about the book is its shallowness. It reads more like a newspaper accounting of the facts rather than a non fiction book. One thing though , the reader will probably not want to go to Somalia any time soon.
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