A Long Walk Home - One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival (Paperback, Main)

This is the story of how, over a period of one hundred and ninety-two days, I was torn away from the life I knew and loved, and dragged down to the depths of despair; of how I endured enforced isolation and near-starvation at the hands of Somali pirates; and of how I made a choice to survive by any and all means that I could muster. In September 2011 Judith Tebbutt and her husband David set out on an adventurous holiday to Kenya. A couple for thirty-three years, they had first met in Zambia: Africa had played a major part in their life together. After a joyous week on safari in the Masai Mara, they flew on to a beach resort forty kilometres south of Somalia. And there, in the early hours of 11 September, tragedy struck them. Judith was torn away from David by a band of armed pirates, dragged over sea and land to a village in the arid heart of lawless Somalia, and there held hostage in a squalid room, a ransom on her head. There, too, she learned the terrible truth that the responsibility of securing her release now rested with her son Ollie. Powerful, moving and at times quite devastating, this is Judith Tebbutt's story in her own words.

General

Imprint:	Faber and Faber
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2013
Authors:	Judith Tebbutt
Dimensions:	197 x 126 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - B-format
Pages:	344
Edition:	Main
ISBN-13:	978-0-571-30306-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Fiction > True stories > Endurance & survival Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	0-571-30306-4
Barcode:	9780571303069

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