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.
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