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Means of Escape (Paperback)
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Means of Escape (Paperback)
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List price R592
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Philip Caputo has been a witness to the most important struggles of
our time, from the hot green hell of Vietnam to the dusty mountains
of Afghanistan and the bloodstained streets of Beirut. In Means of
Eascape, Caputo intersperses imaginative retellings of events he
witnessed with true accounts of how he became a writer, and what
happened when he was sent to some of the most dangerous places in
the world. He begins with his childhood and budding career in
Chicago. Soon after, he was deep in the Sinai Peninsula searching
for the last authentic Bedouin, and reporting from the front lines
of the Yom Kippur War. In an eerie parallel to journalist Daniel
Pearl's tragic murder, Caputo was held hostage for a week by
Islamic extremists while reporting in Beirut. Caputo's palpable
descriptions of the captors and fellow cellmates in this razor-thin
existence are as compelling as any escape stroy before or since. As
he emerged from captivity, Peter Jennings congratulated him on his
eventual escape, and on the Pulizer Prize he'd won while
imprisoned. While continuing his work as a reporter in Beirut, he
was singled out by a sniper, and received a bullet in his ankle and
a chunk of wall in his head. In Afghanistan in the 1980s, he joined
the Mujahideen for a clandestine mission and was nearly captured by
Soviet forces. Few authors have put themselves so squarely in the
center of the 20th century's great conflicts, and even fewer can
describe what they saw as well as Philip Caputo does in this
important memoir. (6 x 9, 416 pages)Philip Caputo is the author of
the New York Times best-seller A Rumor of War and three novels:
Indian Country, DelCorso's Gallery, and Horn of Africa. He won the
PulitzerPrize in 1972 as part of an investigative team for the
Chicago Tribune, and his coverage of his experience as a captive of
Palestinian guerrillas won him the Overseas Press Club's George
Polk Citation.
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