Then you can start reading kindle books on your smartphone, tablet, or computer no kindle device required. Home page for kira salak adventure journalist, author, woman travel writer. 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. The cruelest journey by kira salak overdrive rakuten. The cruelest journey reading group guide restless books.
The cruelest journey ebook by kira salak 9781632060679. She grew up relishing the exploits of the great scottish explorer mungo park and set herself the daunting goal of retracing his fatal journey down west africas niger river for 600 miles to timbuktu. Six hundred miles to timbuktu 01 by salak, kira isbn. Get your kindle here, or download a free kindle reading app. Kira salak is quite the adventurer, and her two books reflect that. Kira salak is a young woman with a history of seeking impossible challenges. Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrel. Six hundred miles to timbuktu, national geographic books, 2004.
Kira salak became the first person in the world to kayak alone. Books by kira salak read epub pdf cruelest journey. 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. Read unlimited books and audiobooks on the web, ipad, iphone and android. Relates the tale of the authors journey of more than six hundred. Read the cruelest journey by kira salak for free with a 30 day free trial. Kira salak born september 4, 1971 is an american writer, adventurer, and journalist known. In this book, she be es the first solo kayaker to travel a distance of 600 miles along the niger river. As she begins her harrowing solo kayaking journey 600 miles down the niger river, salak writes, though we may think we chose our journeys, they chose us. A journey into the heart of papua new guinea a new york times notable travel book and the cruelest journey. A national geographic emerging explorer and contributing editor for national geographic adventure magazine, she was the first woman to traverse papua new guinea and the first person to kayak solo 600 miles to timbuktu. 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. Download a free reading group guide to the cruelest journey. Description 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.
Six hundred miles to timbuktu the cruelest journey a book by kira salak. She is the author of three booksthe critically acclaimed work of fiction, the white mary, and two works of nonfiction. In 1767, it is known that a scotsman, mungo park, attempted the same feat, only to be taken captive. Read the cruelest journey six hundred miles to timbuktu by kira salak available from rakuten kobo. Six hundred miles to timbuktu by kira salak salaks 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.