{"product_id":"a-long-walk-home-one-womans-story-of-kidnap-hostage-loss-and-survival-jun-29-2013-tebbutt-judith-by-judith-tebbutt","title":"A Long Walk Home: One Woman's Story of Kidnap, Hostage, Loss - and - Survival by Judith Tebbutt","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePowerful, 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\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\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43727825272906,"sku":"6795al","price":10.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/6795al.jpg?v=1782094474","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/a-long-walk-home-one-womans-story-of-kidnap-hostage-loss-and-survival-jun-29-2013-tebbutt-judith-by-judith-tebbutt","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}