{"product_id":"9780571303038","title":"A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJudith   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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut 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.\u003cbr\u003e  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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere   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.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47124424130800,"sku":"9780571303038","price":7.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571303038_p0.jpg?v=1763719163","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571303038","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}