Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone 600 miles on the Niger River of Mali to Timbuktu, retracing the fatal journey of the great Scottish explorer Mungo Park. Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert, and the mercurial moods of this notorious river, Kira Salak traveled solo through one of the most desolate and dangerous regions in Africa, where little had changed since Mungo Park was taken captive by Moors in 1797.
Dependent on locals for food and shelter each night, Salak stayed in remote mud-hut villages on the banks of the Niger, meeting Dogan sorceresses and tribes who alternately revered and reviled her--so remarkable was the sight of an unaccompanied white woman paddling all the way to Timbuktu. Indeed, on one harrowing stretch she barely escaped with her life from men chasing after her in canoes. Finally, weak with dysentery but triumphant, she arrived in the fabled city of Timbuktu and fulfilled her ultimate goal: buying the freedom of two Bella slave women. This unputdownable story is also a meditation on courage and self-mastery by a young adventuress without equal, whose writing is as thrilling as her life.
Publisher: National Geographic Society Date Published : November 2004 ISBN-13: 9780792274575 320pp
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Kira Salak. 3.94. 687 ratings84 reviews. Relates the tale of the author's journey of more than six hundred dangerous miles on the Niger River from Mali's Old Segou to Timbuktu, enduring tropical storms and the heat of the Sahara to fulfill her goal of buying the freedom of two Bella slave girls. Genres Travel Africa Nonfiction Adventure Memoir ...
THE CRUELEST JOURNEY. 600 MILES TO TIMBUKTU. Read Excerpts from "The Cruelest Journey" REVIEWS "A deeply personal travel memoir, Salak is not merely a traveller, she is an explorer, and her voyage is an expedition of self-discovery. She sets off in ominously stormy weather 206 years to the day after Park did, and shares in cutting detail the ...
The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu. "At the age of thirty-two, Kira Salak is already an adventurer with a long history of seeking impossible challenges. Here she documents her most ambitious journey yet: six hundred unforgiving miles on the Niger River through Mali, from Old Segou to Timbuktu - a feat inspired by the legendary Scottish ...
Finally, weak with dysentery but triumphant, she arrived in the fabled city of Timbuktu and fulfilled her ultimate goal: buying the freedom of two Bella slave women. The Cruelest Journey is both an unputdownable story and a meditation on courage and self-mastery by a young adventuress without equal, whose writing is as thrilling as her life.
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu. Hardcover - November 1, 2004. At the age of thirty-two, Kira Salak is already an adventurer with a long history of seeking impossible challenges. Here she documents her most ambitious journey yet: six hundred unforgiving miles on the Niger River through Mali, from Old Segou to Timbuktu - a feat ...
The Cruelest Journey is both an unputdownable story and a meditation on courage and self-mastery by a young adventuress without equal, ... she was the first woman to traverse Papua New Guinea and the first person to kayak solo 600 miles to Timbuktu. She is the author of three books—the critically acclaimed work of fiction, The White Mary, ...
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THE CRUELEST JOURNEY: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu Kira Salak, . . National Geographic, $26 (256pp) ISBN 978--7922-9790-1 ... As she begins her harrowing solo kayaking journey 600 miles down the ...
The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu Kira Salak Snippet view - 2005. The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles by Canoe to the Legendary City of Timbuktu Kira Salak No preview available - 2005. About the author (2006) Kira Salak was born in Illinois in 1971. She has a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Missouri at Columbia ...
Kindle. $14.99 Read with our free app. Hardcover. $6.12 23 Used from $2.53. A young adventurer with a history of seeking impossible challenges, Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone the six hundred miles on the Niger River to Timbuktu—"the golden city of the Middle Ages" and fabled "doorway to the end of the ...
A young adventurer with a history of seeking impossible challenges, Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone the six hundred miles on the Niger River to Timbuktu—"the golden city of the Middle Ages" and fabled "doorway to the end of the world.". While Salak ventures into one of the most desolate regions in Africa ...
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The cruelest journey : 600 miles to Timbuktu / Kira Salak. Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. Social Media Share Tools. Share Icon. Print; Object Details Author Salak, Kira 1971-Subject Salak, Kira 1971- Travel 2005 C2005 Call number DT356 .S25 2005 Type Books Physical description x, 230 p. : map ; 24 cm Place
Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone 600 miles on the Niger River of Mali to Timbuktu, retracing the fatal journey of the great Scottish explorer Mungo Park. Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert, and the mercurial moods of this notorious river, Kira Salak traveled solo ...
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Hardcover. $149.00 3 Used from $116.00 2 New from $149.00. Kira Salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone 600 miles on the Niger River of Mali to Timbuktu, retracing the fatal journey of the great Scottish explorer Mungo Park. Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert, and the mercurial ...
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The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu [Salak, Kira] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu ... This trip is a 600 mile journey she takes from Old Segou, Mali to Timbuktu, in an inflatable kayak and traveling on the Niger River. She wanted to take the route which was ...
The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu. Ludicrous. Click the card to flip 👆. causing laughter because of absurdity; ridiculous; laughable. Click the card to flip 👆. 1 / 29.
pleasantly calm or peaceful; tranquil; serenely quiet or undisturbed. mercurial. changeable; volatile; fickle; flighty; erratic. irrevocably. not to be revoked or recalled; unalterable; unable to take away. anathema. something hated or despised. embark. to set out on a course or a journey (often aboard a boat)
Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old Segou to Timbuktu - the golden city of the Middle Ages, and, legend has it, the doorway to the end of the world - in Mali, West Africa. Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert and the mercurial ...
The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu. Flashcards; Learn; Test; Match; ... Kira Salak. Author of the text. Travel Narrative. Writings that describe either the author's journey to a distant and alien place, or writings which discuss the customs, habits and wildlife of a distant place. Imagery. Description that appeals to the senses (sight ...
7 Analyze Ideas & Events (Line 100-114) In a travel narrative, every detail contributes to the story. Details about conflicts and obstacles help readers get involved in the adventure. 7. Cite the details in lines that describe the obstacles Salak faces in the first moments of her journey.