In 2006, twenty-seven-year-old Jessica Buchanan arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, with a teaching degree and long-held dreams of helping to educate African children. By 2009, she had met and married the man of her dreams, a native Swede named Erik Landemalm, who worked to coordinate humanitarian aid with l[...]
The "New York Times "bestselling memoir of humanitarian aid worker Jessica Buchanan's kidnapping by Somali land pirates, praised as "spellbinding....written with clarity and compassion" ("The New York Journal of Books").
On October 25, 2011, thirty-two year-old Jessica Buchanan was working as a [...]