The cruellest journey : 600 miles by canoe to the legendary city of Timbuktu
Salak, Kira, 1971-2005
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Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old Ségou to Timbuktu - the golden city of the Middle Ages, and, legend has it, the doorway to the end of the world - in Mali, West Africa. This is her story.
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London : Bantam, 2005.
Collation:
274 p., [8] p. of plates : col. ill., map ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780593053249 (hbk)
Dewey class:
916.0433
Language:
English
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BRN:
1941160