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 ...
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu by Kira Salak
Kira Salak. 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. 320 pages, Hardcover. First published November 1, 2004.
Book Review: The Cruelest Journey
The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles To Timbuktu, by Kira Salak. Although the nation of Mali does not often cross my radar as an interesting place to read about, is a desperately poor country to boot [1], as someone who likes reading books about interesting travels [2], this book caught my attention, as cruel journeys are something that sounds very Nathanish to me at least.
The Cruelest Journey by Kira Salak
The Cruelest Journey. 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 ...
The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles to Timbuktu
The Cruelest Journey. : "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 explorer Mungo Park."
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The Cruelest Journey - Review. "The Niger is more than a river; it is a kind of faith.". - The Cruelest Journey. Not only needing the adventurous and courageous spirit of a traveler, Salak also required the physical fitness and stamina to complete the goal at hand - a 600 mile paddle down the Niger River to Timbuktu.
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Download a free reading group guide to The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu by Kira Salak "Salak's trip is deeply personal, and she shares her fears, her triumphs, and her thoughts along the way with the reader, making it an accessible, involving journey for her audience." —Booklist. eBook • ISBN: 9781632060679
The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
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. About the Author. Kira Salak won the PEN Award for journalism for her reporting on the war in Congo, and she has appeared five times in Best American Travel Writing. A ...
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Excerpts from "The Cruelest Journey". by Kira Salak. Excerpt from Chapter 1. In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception. The idea is to paddle nearly 600 miles on the Niger River in a kayak, alone, from the Malian town of Old Ségou to Timbuktu. And now, at the very hour when I have decided ...
The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu
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 ...
The Cruelest Journey by Kira Salak
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. ... (a New York Times Notable Travel Book) and The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu. She has a Ph.D. in English, her fiction appearing in Best New ...
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Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu. Hardcover - November 1, 2004. by Kira Salak (Author) 4.4 111 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
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Kira Salak, . . National Geographic, $26 (256pp) ISBN 978--7922-9790-1 As she begins her harrowing solo kayaking journey 600 miles down the Niger River, Salak writes, "Though we may think we ...
The cruelest journey by Kira Salak
by Kira Salak. "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 explorer Mungo Park." "With ...
The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
Salak decides to take the journey alone on a kayak, hoping to recapture Park's sense of wonder and determination. Her journey gets off to an inauspicious start when she injures her arm on the very first day of her journey. But Salak preseveres, and spends day in and day out paddling down the river. Along the way, she encounters various tribes ...
The cruelest journey : six hundred miles to Timbuktu
The cruelest journey : six hundred miles to Timbuktu Author : Kira Salak Summary : 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.
The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu by Kira Salak
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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Kira Salak was born on September 4, 1971, in Westmont, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Her mother was a waitress and her father repaired mainframe computers. ... The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred miles to Timbuktu, National Geographic Books, 2004: an account of her 600-mile journey down the Niger River from Old Segou, Mali, ...
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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. While Salak ventures into one of the most desolate regions in Africa, looming as a reminder of the danger she faces is the fate of great Scottish explorer Mungo ...
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The cruelest journey by Kira Salak. Publication date 2005 Topics Salak, Kira, -- 1971- -- Travel -- Niger River., Canoes and canoeing -- Niger River., Niger River -- Description and travel., Africa, West -- Description and travel. Publisher National Geographic Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled
The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu: Salak, Kira
This writer, Kira Salak, was lucky enough to partake in a fascinating, yet wild adventure for National Geographic. She alone, paddled 600 miles down the Niger River in an 'inflatable kayak'! Others had taken this journey on, yet I do believe that Ms. Salak was the first to ride the river in that fashion.
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Her book, The Cruelest Journey, published by Brooklyn-based Restless Books, is a riveting read. It, like her other books and National Geographic stories, reveals a women who eschews the easy route, the cliché destination. Salak has crossed Papua New Guinea and made a 700-mile cycling trip across Alaska to the Arctic Ocean. She has ventured into Iranian vistas where local travel guides don ...
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 ...
Kira Salak. 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. 320 pages, Hardcover. First published November 1, 2004.
The Cruelest Journey: 600 Miles To Timbuktu, by Kira Salak. Although the nation of Mali does not often cross my radar as an interesting place to read about, is a desperately poor country to boot [1], as someone who likes reading books about interesting travels [2], this book caught my attention, as cruel journeys are something that sounds very Nathanish to me at least.
The Cruelest Journey. 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 ...
The Cruelest Journey. : "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 explorer Mungo Park."
The Cruelest Journey - Review. "The Niger is more than a river; it is a kind of faith.". - The Cruelest Journey. Not only needing the adventurous and courageous spirit of a traveler, Salak also required the physical fitness and stamina to complete the goal at hand - a 600 mile paddle down the Niger River to Timbuktu.
Download a free reading group guide to The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu by Kira Salak "Salak's trip is deeply personal, and she shares her fears, her triumphs, and her thoughts along the way with the reader, making it an accessible, involving journey for her audience." —Booklist. eBook • ISBN: 9781632060679
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. About the Author. Kira Salak won the PEN Award for journalism for her reporting on the war in Congo, and she has appeared five times in Best American Travel Writing. A ...
Excerpts from "The Cruelest Journey". by Kira Salak. Excerpt from Chapter 1. In the beginning, my journeys feel at best ludicrous, at worst insane. This one is no exception. The idea is to paddle nearly 600 miles on the Niger River in a kayak, alone, from the Malian town of Old Ségou to Timbuktu. And now, at the very hour when I have decided ...
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 ...
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. ... (a New York Times Notable Travel Book) and The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu. She has a Ph.D. in English, her fiction appearing in Best New ...
Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu. Hardcover - November 1, 2004. by Kira Salak (Author) 4.4 111 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 ...
Kira Salak, . . National Geographic, $26 (256pp) ISBN 978--7922-9790-1 As she begins her harrowing solo kayaking journey 600 miles down the Niger River, Salak writes, "Though we may think we ...
by Kira Salak. "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 explorer Mungo Park." "With ...
Salak decides to take the journey alone on a kayak, hoping to recapture Park's sense of wonder and determination. Her journey gets off to an inauspicious start when she injures her arm on the very first day of her journey. But Salak preseveres, and spends day in and day out paddling down the river. Along the way, she encounters various tribes ...
The cruelest journey : six hundred miles to Timbuktu Author : Kira Salak Summary : 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.
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 ...
The Cruelest Journey; The Cruelest Journey ebook ∣ Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu By Kira Salak. Read a Sample. ... 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." ...
Kira Salak was born on September 4, 1971, in Westmont, a western suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Her mother was a waitress and her father repaired mainframe computers. ... The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred miles to Timbuktu, National Geographic Books, 2004: an account of her 600-mile journey down the Niger River from Old Segou, Mali, ...
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. While Salak ventures into one of the most desolate regions in Africa, looming as a reminder of the danger she faces is the fate of great Scottish explorer Mungo ...
The cruelest journey by Kira Salak. Publication date 2005 Topics Salak, Kira, -- 1971- -- Travel -- Niger River., Canoes and canoeing -- Niger River., Niger River -- Description and travel., Africa, West -- Description and travel. Publisher National Geographic Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled
This writer, Kira Salak, was lucky enough to partake in a fascinating, yet wild adventure for National Geographic. She alone, paddled 600 miles down the Niger River in an 'inflatable kayak'! Others had taken this journey on, yet I do believe that Ms. Salak was the first to ride the river in that fashion.