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Michael Scott Moore

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Los Angeles, The United States

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http://www.radiofreemike.net/

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Fiction, Travel, Memoir

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Michael Scott Moore is a literary journalist and novelist, author of a comic novel about L.A., "Too Much of Nothing," as well as a travel book about surfing, "Sweetness and Blood," which was named a best book of 2010 by The Economist and Popmatters. He was kidnapped in 2012 on a reporting trip to Somalia and held hostage for two and a half years.

His book about the ordeal, "The Desert and the Sea," is due out from Harper in mid-2018. He’s covered the European migration crisis for Businessweek, and politics, travel, and literature for The New Yorker, The Atlantic, LitHub, Newlines, Der Spiegel, GQ, The New Republic, The New York Times, and The L.A. Review of Books. ...more

	The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast 3.97 avg rating — 2,501 ratings — published 2018 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sweetness and Blood: How Surfing Spread from Hawaii and California to the Rest of the World, with Some Unexpected Results 3.68 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2010 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Too Much of Nothing 3.59 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Waves of Summer by David M. Olsen (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Charles Ardai, Oliver Brennan 4.15 avg rating — 33 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dark Waves of Winter by David M. Olsen (Goodreads Author), Michael Scott Moore (Goodreads Author), Nik Xandir Wolf (Goodreads Author) 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Even in the dark, I could sense the allure of this wild coast. Idaan had a deep quiet, a spooky sense of wilderness and desolation.”
― Michael Scott Moore, The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

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“The fear and helplessness were so extreme, and so contradictory, that I sank into a dark and peculiar calm…After the mortal shock I found a strange, ice-cold balance.”
― Michael Scott Moore, The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

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“I was still fresh enough as a hostage to care about my things, like a man who’d lost his head and wanted to put it back on.”
― Michael Scott Moore, The Desert and the Sea: 977 Days Captive on the Somali Pirate Coast

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