DESERT AND THE SEA THE

Michael Scott Moore a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a rivetingthoughtful and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy religious extremism and the costs of survival.In January 2012 having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisi...See More