The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast Audiobook (Free)

Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the writer of Sweetness and Bloodstream, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism with this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates-a riveting, thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of international policy, religious extremism, and the expenses of survival.

In January 2012, having protected a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International-and funded with a grant through the Pulitzer about The Desert and the ocean: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coastline Center on Problems Reporting-Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to create about piracy and methods to end it. In an awful twist of destiny, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently kept captive by Somali pirates. Put through conditions that break actually the strongest spirits-physical injury, hunger, isolation, terror-Moore’s success is a testament to his indomitable strength of brain. In Sept 2014, after 977 days, he walked free of charge when his ransom was put together by the help of many US and German establishments, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mom.

Yet Moore’s very own struggle is area of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Captured between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, as well as the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that encircled him-the economics and background of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various encounters of Islam-and locations his ordeal in the context of the bigger political and historic issues.

A sort of Catch-22 meets Dark Hawk Down, The Desert and the ocean is written with dark humor, candor, and a journalist’s clinical distance and eye for detail. Moore offers an romantic and otherwise inaccessible watch of lifestyle as we cannot fathom it, brilliantly weaving his own experience being a hostage using the cultural, economic, spiritual, and political elements creating it. The Desert and the Sea is wildly powerful and a reserve that will consider its place next to game titles like Den of Lions and Even Silence Comes with an End.