Desert And The Sea, The

Moore set off for Somalia in January 2012 after reporting on a historic trial of ten Somali pirates in Germany with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. Near the end of his trip, a gang of pirates captured him and demanded a ransom of twenty million dollars. Moore would be stuck in Somalia for more than two and a half years, shifted from camps in the desert bush to barren prison houses, and on a hijacked tuna vessel, where he would make friends with a crew of hostage fishermen.As the only Western journalist to witness everyday life on a ship captured by Somali pirates, Moore recounts his dizzying ordeal as a rich and surprising story of survival. After a daring but desperate attempt to escape, he struggles with murderous fantasies as well as thoughts of suicide.In the face of threats to kill him, or sell him to al-Shabaab, Moore maintains his humanity and his sardonic wit. He relates his captivity with calm detachment, brilliantly weaving his own experience as a...