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Description
Après avoir échappé au quotidien d'une enfance difficile en se plongeant dans de vieux numéros du magazine National Geographic, la jeune Amanda Lindhout décide de partir à son tour à la découverte de ce monde qui la fait tant rêver.
À 19 ans, elle travaille comme serveuse et parvient à mettre suffisamment d'argent de cté pour s'offrir de longs périples sac au dos en Amérique latine et en Asie, jusqu'à ce que son énergie et sa curiosité...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The spectacularly dramatic memoir of a woman whose curiosity about the world led her from rural Canada to imperiled and dangerous countries on every continent, and then into fifteen months of harrowing captivity in Somalia--a story of courage, resilience, and extraordinary grace.At the age of eighteen, Amanda Lindhout moved from her hardscrabble Alberta hometown to the big city--Calgary--and worked as a cocktail waitress, saving her tips so she could...
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