Four Corners
by Kira Salak

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The Beach meets Heart of Darkness in an extraordinary travel memoir charting 24-year-old Kira Salak's three-month solo journey across Papua New Guinea.

Following the route taken by British explorer Ivan Champion in 1927, and amid breathtaking landscapes and wildlife, Salak travelled 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.

Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Travel Book of the year, Four Corners is both a gripping true story and a parallel journey into the author's past, where she revisits the demons that drove her to experience situations most of us can barely imagine.

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ISBN-10:	0553815504
ISBN-13/EAN:	9780553815504
Author:	Kira Salak
Publisher:	Bantam Books London
Publication Date:	2003
Pages:	384 pp
Size/Dimensions:	8 x 5
Binding:	Paperback