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25%OFFMelissa Fleming - A Hope More Powerful than the Sea - 9781408708446 - V9781408708446
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A Hope More Powerful than the Sea

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Description for A Hope More Powerful than the Sea Paperback. A young refugee's story of terror, love and survival Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBS; BTP; JFFD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 290 x 2. Weight in Grams: 386.
This is the story of Doaa, an ordinary girl from a village in Syria, who in 2015 became one of five hundred people crammed on to a fishing boat setting sail for Europe. The boat was deliberately capsized, and of those five hundred people, eleven survived; they were rescued four days after the boat sank. Doaa was one of them - her fiance Bassem, with whom she had fled, was not; he drowned in front of her. Melissa Fleming, the Chief Spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, heard about Doaa and the death of ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408708446
SKU
V9781408708446
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-10

About Melissa Fleming
Melissa Fleming is Head of Communications and Chief Spokesperson for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Her TED talk on the subject of refugees has been viewed more than 1.3 million times. She writes regularly for the Guardian. https://go.ted.com/CLTR

Reviews for A Hope More Powerful than the Sea
A Hope More Powerful than the Sea poignantly illuminates some of the reasons why our fellow humans embark on such perilous journeys to reach Europe . . . One can only hope that by sharing Doaa's story, her remarkable courage, Fleming will help people better understand why so many are prepared to risk so much in order to reach relative ... Read more

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