Even Silence Has An End. My Six Years Of Captivity In The Colombian Jungle

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Virago Press
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2010
Edition: Reprint

Description: 594 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear and age marks on the inside page present, but still a presentable copy. Ingrid Was Captured By The FARC While Campaigning As A Presidential Candidate By A Brutal Terrorist Guerrilla Organization In 2002 And Held Captive For Six Years.

Publishers Description: Ingrid Betancourts astonishing, powerful and deeply moving account of her six-year ordeal in the Colombian jungle as a hostage of the terrorist organisation FARC. Ingrid Betancourts story - her exemplary courage, spirit and resilience - has captured the worlds imagination. A politician and presidential candidate celebrated for her determination to combat the corruption and climate of fear endemic in Colombia, in 2002 she was taken hostage by FARC, a terrorist guerrilla organisation. She was held captive in the depths of the jungle for six and a half years, chained day and night for much of that time, constantly on the move and enduring gruelling conditions. She was freed and reunited with her children and relatives in 2008. It is Betancourts indomitable spirit that drives this important and deeply moving book, telling in her own words the extraordinary drama of her capture and eventual rescue, and describes her fight to survive, mentally and physically. As she confronts the horror of what she went through, her story also goes beyond the specifics of her own confinement to offer an intensely intelligent, thoughtful and compassionate reflection on what it means to be human.

ISBN: 9781844086122