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Michael Scott Moore (born 1969) is an American journalist and novelist. He is the author of Sweetness and Blood (2010), about the history of surfing, and The Desert and the Sea (2018), a memoir about his captivity in Somalia. Moore graduated from University of California, San Diego in 1991 with a degree in German Literature.
- US, Germany
- Author, journalist
- English, German
- 1969 (age 53–54), Los Angeles, California
Jun 2, 2015 · The long read: Michael Scott Moore was kidnapped by Somali pirates in 2012. For the first time, he tells the story of his abduction, detention and eventual release
Jul 30, 2018 · Michael Scott Moore was captured by pirates after traveling to Somalia to write a book about the history of piracy in the Horn of Africa. Kidnapped by Somali pirates, journalist Michael Scott ...
Mar 7, 2023 · Michael Scott Moore, a German American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles northeast of the capital of Mogadishu. He was working as a freelancer for the German ...
Mar 7, 2023 · Michael Scott Moore, a German-American journalist, was abducted in 2012 and held for 2-1/2 years by Somali pirates who demanded a ransom. Two men were convicted of helping the pirates and face life sentences.
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Sep 8, 2022 · Michael Scott Moore is a journalist and a novelist who was kidnapped and held hostage by pirates in Somalia for 32 months. He wrote a memoir about his ordeal, The Desert and the Sea, and worked as an editor and writer at Spiegel Online in Berlin.
Nov 18, 2018 · In the early days of 2012, the German-American journalist Michael Scott Moore was kidnapped by pirates in Somalia — the very pirates he was there to write about. In “The Desert and the Sea ...
