num_pages: 320
description: 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.
language: English
title: Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
titlecomplete: Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu
genres: Mali, Cultural, Africa, Travel, Travelogue, Nonfiction, Adventure, History, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 676
publisher: National Geographic