About this title: 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.
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Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: National Geographic
Date Published: 2004-11-01
ISBN-13:9780792274575ISBN:0792274571
Description: Like New. May be shiny, in some instances dust jackets are not included, no missing pages, no damage to binding, may have a remainder mark. read more
Description: Very Good. } Former Library book. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: National Geographic
Date Published: 2004-11-01
ISBN-13:9780792274575ISBN:0792274571
Description: Fair. EX LIBRARY COPY usual markings-stickers on dust jacket under mylar covering-pages VERY GOOD-no writing/no rips-tight binding- read more
Description: Good. Book shows minor use. Cover and Binding have minimal wear and the pages have only minimal creases. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: National Geographic
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780792274575ISBN:0792274571
Description: Good in Good jacket. BINDING LOOSE BUT INTACT, DUST JACKET WORN AS IT HAS SERVED IT'S PURPOSE AND PROTECTED THE BOOK, Clean, nice condition, good reading copy. read more
Description: Fine; Collectible. Excellent condition. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Minor edge wear on DJ. Free track. Fast! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: NATL GEOGRAPHIC CHILDRENS
Date Published: 2004
ISBN-13:9780792274575ISBN:0792274571
Description: New. In retracing explorer Mungo Park's fatal journey down West Africa's Niger River, author and adventuress Salak became the first person to travel alone from Mali's Old Segou to Timbuktu, the legendary "doorway to the end of the world. " This is her story. read more
"Kira Salak just at the cusp of her 30s took time away from an English PhD to paddle a kayak six hundred miles along the Niger to Timbuktu, following the path of the doomed 18th-century explorer Mungo Park. "Cruelest Journey" matches Park's final expedition with Salak's intention to test herself against the river, to open herself up to the world along its banks. Physical exhaustion and isolation, cultural shock and sickness--- Salak teaches herself to face all those things. This isn't a book about Timbuktu, and the arrival there is an anticlimax. But it is a wonderful meditation on place and what it means to be alone in crowds, and to face the kind of physical ordeals Westerners never see any more."
"So many thoughts went through my head as I read this book: 1. I am a slug. I need to get out and experience the world 2. This would be a good book for Terry. The parallels being pushing your body to its limit. The difference was that Kira went through hostile areas while paddling her 600 miles....I am not sure if PGH was hostile to you when you ran through it----I hope not. 3. The poor Malian women...some are slaves, some have horrible procedures done to them. I can't imagine. 4. How materialistic we (Americans) are. 5. How much I enjoy being clean and fed. I think this is a good read. I can see that some of her experiences from this journey were used in her fictionalized book."
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