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A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout6/27/2023 ![]() As her confidence grew, she became more adventurous. When the money ran out, she’d return to waitressing until she had saved enough to travel again. She started in the Western Hemisphere-Venezuela, Guatemala, Nicaragua. ![]() Whenever she amassed enough money, she would quit her job to travel, inspired by the old copies of National Geographic she’d pored over as a kid. She grew up in a poor, rural area of Canada and, after graduating from high school, went to work as a cocktail waitress in Calgary. Once a sparkling jewel of the continent, Somalia had descended into lawlessness, with constant fighting by factions of Islamist militants and a fledgling government powerless to stem the violence.Įven seasoned journalists hesitated to go there. Five years ago, Amanda Lindhout, a struggling 27-year-old Canadian journalist hoping to make a name for herself, decided to visit Mogadishu, Somalia, a gorgeous wreck of a city perched on the Indian Ocean along Africa’s east coast. ![]() ![]() Only after meeting journalist Sara Corbett did she feel ready to tell her story.Įvery life is made up of a series of decisions-good ones, bad ones, opportunities of a lifetime, and those, in retrospect, that look extraordinarily ill considered. ![]() Kidnapped in Somalia, Amanda Lindhout spent fifteen months in terrifying captivity. ![]()
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