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1 online resource (xxv, 336 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
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Roadblock : "the retén" -- Checkbook diary : "the 1st National Bank of Rotan" -- Notebook number 1 : "contigo soy feliz" -- Notebook number 2 : "andaluz" -- Scraps -- Letters unsent |
| Summary |
Running late for work one morning in September 1994, Tom Hargrove, communications director for an international agricultural aid organization in Cali, Colombia, was mildly annoyed when he spotted a roadblock, or retén, manned by soldiers in fatigues. He chafed at the delay, but told himself that guerrillas and kidnappers didn't operate on a main highway in broad daylight. But Hargrove had been dreadfully mistaken. Despite his assertions that he worked for a non-profit agricultural agency, he was forced at gunpoint into a vehicle and driven into the mountains by communist narco-terrorists who believed he was a valuable hostage. For almost a year, Hargrove was held by the guerillas and moved from one remote location to another. To maintain his grip on sanity, he recorded his daily experiences in makeshift journals: in a checkbook; on children's notebooks; and on scraps of paper scrounged during his ordeal. Hargrove's story, originally published in 1995, was the basis for the major motion picture Proof of Life, starring Russell Crowe and Meg Ryan. Now available again in paperback, Long March to Freedom chronicles one man's spirited determination to hang onto life and faith amid nearly impossible circumstances |
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Originally published: New York : Ballantine Books, 1995 |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Hargrove, Thomas R. -- Kidnapping, 1994
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| SUBJECT |
Hargrove, Thomas R. fast |
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Kidnapping -- Colombia -- Case studies
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- General.
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TRUE CRIME -- General.
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Kidnapping
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Colombia
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autobiographies (literary works)
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Autobiographies
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Case studies
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781603444576 |
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1603444572 |
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129905319X |
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9781299053199 |
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