A Captain's Duty A Captain's Duty

A Captain's Duty

The true story that inspired the major film, Captain Phillips

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Publisher Description

'This riveting account spares none of the detail and paints fascinating portraits of the desperate young pirates.' Daily Mail

An extraordinary true story of piracy, heroism and survival on the high seas . . .

8th April 2009 was just an ordinary day for 53 -year-old Richard Phillips, captain of the United States-registered cargo vessel, the Maersk Alabama, as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. Ordinary that is until, two hundred or so miles off the east coast of Africa, armed Somali pirates attacked and boarded the freighter as it headed towards the port of Mombasa. It was the first time an American cargo ship had been hijacked in over two-hundred years.

What the pirates didn’t expect was that the crew would fight back, nor did they expect Captain Phillips to offer himself as a hostage in exchange for the safety of his crew. And so began a nail-bitingly tense five-day stand-off, which ended in a daring high-seas rescue by U.S. Navy SEALs.

In A Captain's Duty, Richard Phillips tells his own extraordinary story - that of an ordinary man who did what he saw as his duty and in so doing became a hero. It is a thrilling true tale of adventure and courage in the face of deprivation, death threats and mock executions and also a compulsively readable first-hand account of the terrors of high-seas hostage-taking.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
26 September
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
Transworld
SELLER
The Random House Group Limited
SIZE
2.9
MB

Customer Reviews

CrookyWA ,

Inspirational

One of the most inspirational and influencing books that I will ever read.

REN1951 ,

Great read!

Really enjoyed reading this after having seen the movie. Full of interesting facts and details. The film is great and Tom Hanks just fantastic. The pirate leader just mesmerizing and so convincing. This book is highly recommended. :-)

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