num_pages: 288
description: Kira Salak recently became the first person to successfully canoe 600 miles down the River Niger from Old Segou 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."
language: English
title: The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles by Canoe to the Legendary City of Timbuktu
titlecomplete: The Cruellest Journey: 600 Miles by Canoe to the Legendary City of Timbuktu
genres: Cultural, Travelogue, Adventure, Memoir, Nonfiction, Mali, Travel, History, Biography Memoir, Africa
ratings_count: 676
publisher: BANTAM