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The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu
 
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The Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles to Timbuktu (Hardcover)
by Kira Salak (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: National Geographic Books (29 Dec 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0792274571
  • ISBN-13: 978-0792274575
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 569,803 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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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4.0 out of 5 stars “The journey, my teacher”, 15 Jan 2006
By Friederike Knabe (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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What “makes” an adventure traveler? Is in their genes or do experiences of early childhood create this urge to be on the move? For Kira Salak, these and other questions form the backdrop to her kayak trips into out-of-the-way places such as Borneo, Mozambique or Papa New Guinea. The trips allow her to “unearth parts of myself that I’ve long since buried as dead… They are, in many respects, processes of rebirth.”

The 600 miles solo kayak trip on the Niger River in Mali, West Africa – from Segou to Timbuktu – stands out for her as the “cruellest journey” she has undertaken so far. Some people have called her crazy to attempt this project and, at times, she wonders about it herself. But the drive to finish the challenge and to see the fabled city at the edge of the Sahara provides her with levels of endurance and strengths that are difficult to imagine. She lives off what she can pack into her little red kayak. She has to rely on vill