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Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guinea (Paperback)

by Kira Salak (Author)
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam Books (2 Jun 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0553815504
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553815504
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 582,156 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"It is, like all the best travel narratives, a resonant interior journey, and offers wisdom for our times."
--Edward Marriott, author of The Lost Tribe
"Kira Salak is tough, a real life Lara Croft...unlike many travel writers, she is hip to her inner workings."
--"New York Times"
"Kira Salak is a rare find - a gifted storyteller who is also a daring journeywoman."
--Mary Morris, author of Nothing To Declare: Memoir of a Woman Travelling Alone

EDWARD MARRIOTT, author of THE LOST TRIBE
'A travel book that transcends the genre...A resonant interior journey that offers wisdom for our times’

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A fantastic, thrilling read, 28 Jan 2004
This is the most exciting travel memoir I've ever read. Kira Salak is brave, funny, insightful and you never know how she's going to get herself out of her latest dangerous situation. Real edge of the seat stuff, and moving too.
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7 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Poor travel book. Recklessness doesn't equal adventure., 12 Jul 2003
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It is a shame, this could have been a more inspiring book about travel or just a good adventure story anyway, but what we get is someone throwing themselves foolhardily from one life-(or rape-) threatening situation to another with almost wanton abandon as if she has no value for her own safety or respect.
We would also hope that by the end of the story she learns to slow down and really appreciate or even take the time to be part of the culture around her but sadly this doesn't happen either.

To take this book as an inspiration would be to legitimise throwing your life on the line pointlessly and recklessly time and time again in order to hope to understand why you shouldn't. She did, and she was the lucky one who came out of it and survived. She can't understand the wisdom of others as to why taking unnecessary risks is....well....unnecessary. She never learns to judge for herself what is or is not worth the risk and when is the time to do it or when it is time to wait. She still ends up saying that if she wants to do something she'll do it, which having read the book means throwing caution to the wind and throwing your life away when it can be done> If something is really a geuine wish, by taking time and learning what the locals have learnt and using their wisdom to guide you, it is still possible to use the wisdom of others to further your own self-growth without being totally foolish and reckless.
However, she never learns to take the locals word for anything and gets into trouble again and again. Truly an independent minded person but hardly an inspiration to snyone unless they also have no respect for their own life - particularly as she spends half the book bemoaning the differences bewteen the sexes and apparently being pleased that men can also be raped. A little obssessed by her own hangups about her own sexuality which prevents her in any way accepting the culture of PNG which is all around her.
I would have to say don't follow this type of adventure yourselves, since, as evidenced in the book itself, around 7-8 out of 10 people showing such a lack of wisdom in their decision-making DO end up either raped, mutilated or dead and yes that does include the Westerners (especially because of their race) and yes it does occur to both sexes because there is nothing exclusively male or female about travel - cotrary to her limited perceptions.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, 24 May 2009
By C. Barker (Chichester) - See all my reviews
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Fascinating and thoroughly entertaining account of travel in Papua New Guinea. Very well written. One of the best travel books ive read.
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