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Four Corners by Kira Salak (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCounterpoint Press
ISBN-101582431655
ISBN-139781582431659
eBay Product ID (ePID)1905733
Product Key Features
Book TitleFour Corners
Number of Pages416 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, Essays & Travelogues, Women's Studies, Oceania
Publication Year2001
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Social Science, History
AuthorKira Salak
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight21 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-028894
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal910.4
SynopsisFollowing the route taken by British explorer Ivan Champion in 1927, and amid breathtaking landscapes and wildlife, Salak traveled across this remote Pacific island-often called the last frontier of adventure travel--by dugout canoe and on foot. Along the way, she stayed in a village where cannibalism was still practiced behind the backs of the missionaries, met the leader of the OPM--the separatist guerrilla movement opposing the Indonesian occupation of Western New Guinea--and undertook an epic trek through the jungle. The New York Times said "Kira Salak is tough, a real-life Lara Croft." And Edward Marriott, proclaimed Four Corners to be "A travel book that transcends the genreIt is, like all the best travel narratives, a resonant interior journey, and offers wisdom for our times.", Following the route taken by British explorer Ivan Champion in 1927, and amid breathtaking landscapes and wildlife, Salak traveled across this remote Pacific island-often called the last frontier of adventure travel--by dugout canoe and on foot. Along the way, she stayed in a village where cannibalism was still practiced behind the backs of the missionaries, met the leader of the OPM--the separatist guerrilla movement opposing the Indonesian occupation of Western New Guinea--and undertook an epic trek through the jungle. The New York Times said Kira Salak is tough, a real-life Lara Croft. And Edward Marriott, proclaimed Four Corners to be A travel book that transcends the genreIt is, like all the best travel narratives, a resonant interior journey, and offers wisdom for our times., A story of extraordinary danger and adventure as a very young woman attempts, alone, a trip across Papua New Guinea. After her first taste of the freedom found in travel at age 19, Kira Salak spent the next several years of her youth as a constant, impulsive traveler. Barely old enough to drink, she leaves her life behind - graduate school, a job, a boyfriend who loves her - to attempt the impossible, her dream of following in the footsteps of British explorer Ivan Champion, the first person to successfully cross the island of Papua New Guinea in 1927. She is motivated by something much deeper than simply wanting to be the first woman to make such a crossing, and as she composes this memoir she still searches for answers. Why would a lone traveler, a very young woman at that, want to embark on such a dangerous and mysterious trip? Where was her fear? Or was this all an attempt to court and indulge her fear for some larger purpose? No one, on the road or at home, could quite understand
LC Classification NumberDU740.2.S25 2001
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