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1 online resource (368 pages) |
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Access limited to subscribing institutions. |
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In October 2008, Mellissa Fung, a long-time reporter for CBC's The National, was leaving a refugee camp outside of Kabul. Suddenly, she was grabbed by armed men claiming to be Taliban, stabbed, stuffed into the back of a car and driven off into the desert. When the group finally reached a village in the middle of nowhere, her kidnappers pushed her towards a hole in the ground. For twenty-eight days, Mellissa Fung lived in that hole, which was barely big enough to stand up or lie down in, nursing her injuries, praying, writing in her notebook and, as a veteran journalist, interrogating her own captors. Under an Afghan Sky is the gripping tale of Fung's days in captivity, and a powerful book about survival and the indomitable spirit of one woman in the most perilous of circumstances. |
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Print version record. |
| Subject |
Fung, Mellissa -- Captivity, 2008.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs.
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Afghan War, 2001- -- Personal narratives, Canadian.
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Journalists -- Canada -- Biography.
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Hostages -- Canada -- Biography.
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Hostages -- Afghanistan -- Biography.
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Electronic books.
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Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Fung, Mellissa. Under an Afghan sky. Toronto : HarperCollins, ©2011. 9781554686803 (DLC)2014481036 |
| ISBN |
9781443408264 (e-pub) |
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9781443408264 |
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