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Chargement... A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survivalpar Judith Tebbutt
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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. But though she was isolated, intimidated and near-starved, Judith resolved to survive - walking endless circuits of her nine-foot prison, trying to make her captors see her as a human being, keeping her faith at all times in Ollie. Powerful, moving and at times quite devastating, this is Judith Tebbutt's story in her own words. It is a memoir of the life she shared with her beloved husband, an unflinching account of the ordeal that overturned her world, and a testament to the inner resilience and familial love that sustained her through captivity. There is nothing so bad in life as to have no hope - to believe you have been defeated, to give in to that. Now that I found myself in confinement, four thousand miles from home under a hostile sky, I would not accept that fate for myself. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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 Google Books — Chargement...GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)364.154092Social sciences Social problems and services; associations Criminology Crimes and Offenses Offenses against persons KidnappingClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne: (3.83)
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Judith Tebbutt is not an author so this book is plainly written in a straightforward style that feels like you are reading a letter, but this simple honest retelling strikes one immediately. Six months of being held in a filthy, bug infested room, always under surveillance, put on starvation rations, insulted, humiliated and threatened with execution yet she remained resilient and hopeful that one day she would be reunited with her son. Determined to keep herself as fit as possible she started a program of walking for a portion of her day. She likened this exercise to “walking home” and there were many times that only this activity kept her going.
While not an enjoyable read this is a great example of personal courage and conviction. Judith Tebbutt was lucky that she did get to return to her family and with this book she is hoping to gain a perspective about this situation and achieve some type of closure that will allow her to move on with her life. A Long Walk Home is a very personal book, the author barely touches on the political situation in Somalia, instead she concentrates on her experience alone which makes for a very interesting read. (