![]() ![]() 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. On her fourth day in the country, she and her photojournalist companion were abducted. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Mogadishu, Somalia-"the most dangerous place on earth"-To report on the fighting there. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a TV reporter. ![]() She backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each experience, went on to travel solo across Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. As a child, she escaped a violent household by paging through National Geographic and imagining herself in its exotic locales. 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. ![]() "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. ![]()
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