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The Pirates of Somalia : Inside Their Hidden World by Bahadur, Jay is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Pirates of Somalia : Inside Their Hidden World about?
Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 BC. Its history is as rich as the country is old. Caught up in a decades-long civil war, Somalia, along with Iraq and Afghanistan, has become one of the most dangerous countries in the world. Getting there from North America is a forty-five-hour, five-flight voyage through Frankfurt, Dubai, Djibouti, Bossaso (on the Gulf of Aden), and, finally, Galkayo. Somalia is a place where a government has been built out of anarchy. For centuries, stories of pirates have captured imaginations around the world. The recent bands of daring, ragtag pirates off the coast of Somalia, hijacking multimillion-dollar tankers owned by international shipping conglomerates, have brought the scourge of piracy into the modern era. The capture of the American-crewed cargo ship Maersk Alabama in April 2009, the first United States ship to be hijacked in almost two centuries, catapulted the Somali pirates onto prime-time news. Then, with the horrific killing by Somali pirates of four Americans, two of whom had built their dream yacht and were sailing around the world (“And now on to: Angkor Wat! And Burma!” they had written to
Who reads The Pirates of Somalia : Inside Their Hidden World?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bahadur, Jay
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307379061
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Political Science, Social Science, Travel
- Rating
- 3.53 / 5 (739 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14