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Kira Salak: Photos of Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali
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Timbuktu, Mali" /> <br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos028.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /> <br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos030.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /> <br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos032.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /> <br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> </table> <div class="head3"><p><br /><b> Kira Frees Two Slave Women in Timbuktu-- </b><br /> </p></div> <div class="acenter"><p> I wanted to buy the freedom of two Bella slave women, so I negotiated with their Tuareg master, Zengi (pictured in the photos). Incredibly, Zengi ended up charging me ~US $130 per woman. Later, I talked to the women in private, and they spoke of physical abuse and rape at the hands of their Tuareg masters.</p></div> <table align='center' width='90%' border='1' cellpadding='1'> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos033.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos034.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos035.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /><br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos036.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /><br /> </td> </tr> </table> <div class="head3"><p><br /><b>Scenes of the Niger River en route to Timbuktu</b><br /> </p></div> <table align='center' width='90%' border='1' cellpadding='1'> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos100.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /> <br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'> <img height="427" width="640" src="http://www.kirasalak.com/Photos/MaliPhotos101.jpg" alt="Photos of Kira Salak Kayaking 600 Miles To Timbuktu, Mali" /> <br /> </td> </tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> <td width='100%'><div class="copyright"> Mali © Remi Benali 2003 contact: <a href="http://www.remibenali.com" target="_blank">http://www.remibenali.com</a></div></td></tr> <tr align='center' valign='middle'> 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Enduring tropical storms, hippos, rapids, the unrelenting heat of the Sahara desert, and the mercurial moods of this notorious river, Kira Salak traveled solo through one of the most desolate and dangerous regions in Africa, where little had changed since Mungo Park was taken captive by Moors in 1797. </b></p> <p><b>Dependent on locals for food and shelter each night, Salak stayed in remote mud-hut villages on the banks of the Niger, meeting Dogan sorceresses and tribes who alternately revered and reviled her--so remarkable was the sight of an unaccompanied white woman paddling all the way to Timbuktu. Indeed, on one harrowing stretch she barely escaped with her life from men chasing after her in canoes. Finally, weak with dysentery but triumphant, she arrived in the fabled city of Timbuktu and fulfilled her ultimate goal: buying the freedom of two Bella slave women. This unputdownable story is also a meditation on courage and self-mastery by a young adventuress without equal, whose writing is as thrilling as her life.</b></p> </div> </td></tr></table> <div class="acenter"> <br /><img alt="" src="images/nav/Purple1x1.gif" width="200" height="1" /><br /></div> <table width="100%"><tr><td width="25%"><img src="images/books/WhiteMarySmall.jpg" alt="Kira Salak's "The White Mary"" width="188" height="288" class="borderindent"/></td> <td valign="top"> <div class="head2"><b><br />THE WHITE MARY</b></div> <div class="head3"><b>by Kira Salak</b></div> <div class="head3"><br /><a href="http://www.kirasalak.com/WhiteMaryExcerpt.html"><b>READ AN EXCERPT</b></a></div> <div class="head3"><br /><a href="WhiteMary.html#WhiteMaryBuy"><b>BUY THE WHITE MARY</b></a></div> <div class="acenter"><br /> <b>"A gripping debut novel."</b><br /> Publishers Weekly Pick-of-the-Week <br /> </div> <div class="acenter"><br /> <br /><b> "There aren't many books that we hand to friends, urging, <br />'You have to read this.' <em>The White Mary</em> is one of them."<br /> </b>Cleveland Plain Dealer<br /> </div> <div class="acenter"><br /> <b>"Riveting."</b><br />Seattle Post-Intelligencer </div> <div class="acenter"><br /><b> "With <em>The White Mary</em>, journalist Kira Salak makes a stunning<br />debut as a novelist. This is a story whose beauty and power<br />sweeps you along, like the jungle rivers that bear her heroine<br />into the heart of New Guinea in search of a vanished American."</b></div> <div class="acenter"><br />--Philip Caputo</div> </td></tr></table> <div class="acenter"><br /><a href="#PhotosMaliTop"><br />Go to the top of the page</a><br /></div> <div class="copyright"><br /> © 2008 Kira Salak, KiraSalak.com--all rights of reproduction in any form reserved</div> </div> </td></tr></table> </td></tr></table> </body> </html>