Paul and rachel chandler book

It wasn't really a pretty night," Rachel Chandler recalls. Small, sloshing waves were coming from the southeast, and a trickle of wind blew from the southwest. There was no moon, and the stars were shrouded by clouds. The wind was pushing them farther north than they'd planned. With no ships or land in sight, the Chandlers' foot sailing boat, the Lynn Rival, bobbed along all alone. Rachel, who is 57, was on watch while her husband, Paul, was asleep below deck.

B ecause crime is by its nature random, there can be no such thing as a typical victim — and yet we are all familiar with the modern media narrative that makes so many victims sound the same. It almost feels as if we could write the script of their experience ourselves, for rage and guilt, trauma and depression, and above all, wounded blame, are the emotional legacies we have come to expect. Yet nearly a year on from their ordeal, Paul and Rachel Chandler chart their own quiet course, declining tabloid cliches in favour of singularly thoughtful reflection. In October the Chandlers set sail from the Seychelles for Tanzania. Ninety miles offshore, their small yacht was boarded by armed Somali pirates, who held them hostage on land for more than a year, demanding a ransom of many million dollars. The British government stood by its policy of refusing to pay, and there was some criticism of the couple after early media reports described their course as close to the notoriously dangerous Somali coast. In fact they were thousands of miles away, just off the Seychelles — but Somali pirates have increased their range by launching offshore attacks from other hijacked vessels, which they use as mother ships at sea, and this was how the Chandlers were seized.

In December , Somali pirates with AKs and rocket- propelled grenades interrupted the ocean idyll of a retired British couple on their dream boat. Paul and Rachel Chandler were taken from their foot yacht to the bush of Somalia. Unfortunately for the pirates, their prey were less wealthy than expected, and more pugnacious. In their minutely detailed account, the Chandlers do disappointingly little to provide context for their misadventure. Why are there so many Somali pirates, and what is their civil war about, anyway? The Chandlers spend more than a year in captivity, but expend little time understanding their captors, even in retrospect.

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