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Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu

10 best books like Cruelest Journey: Six Hundred Miles To Timbuktu (Kira Salak): Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure, No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo, Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness, Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa, Travels in West Africa, Travels into the Interior of Africa, The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River, To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger, Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire, Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River

Malaria Dreams: An African Adventure
AuthorStuart Stevens
Malaria Dreams is a book about the author and his friend's trip from West Africa to the Mediterranean in a questionable car, and it's well written. So why the one star?

I like adventure travel and adventure travel books better than the next guy usually- depending on who the next guy actually is,...
No Mercy: A Journey to the Heart of the Congo
AuthorRedmond O'Hanlon
ISBN0679737324
Redmond O'Hanlon has journeyed among headhunters in deepest Borneo with the poet James Fenton, and amid the most reticent, imperilled and violent tribe in the Amazon Basin with a night-club manager. This, however, is his boldest journey yet. Accompanied by Lary Shaffer - an American friend and animal...
Facing the Congo: A Modern-Day Journey into the Heart of Darkness
AuthorJeffrey Tayler
ISBN0609808265
Faced with an identity crisis in his work and his life, seasoned traveler and journalist Jeffrey Tayler made a bold decision. He would leave behind his mundane existence in Moscow to re-create the legendary British explorer Henry Stanley’s trip down the Congo in a dugout canoe, stocked with food,...
Somebody's Heart Is Burning: A Woman Wanderer in Africa
AuthorTanya Shaffer
ISBN1400032598
“It's my life, and if I want to run from it I can,” quips Tanya Shaffer. An incorrigible wanderer, Shaffer has a habit of fleeing domesticity for the joys and rigors of the open road. This time her destination is Ghana, and what results is a transformative year spent roaming the African continent....
Travels in West Africa
AuthorMary Henrietta Kingsley
ISBN0792266382
In 1893, defying every convention of Victorian womanhood, Mary Kingsley set off alone for West Africa to collect botanical specimens. Unaccompanied except for native guides, she plunged boldly into forbidding jungles, often the first European--and almost always the first white woman--ever to...
Travels into the Interior of Africa
AuthorMungo Park
ISBN0907871046
More than a year of traveling, on foot, sometimes on horseback or mule and enduring tropical rain, heat, hunger and thirst, dysentery and all kinds of fever.

There is a plan to this, to get as far up along the River Niger as at all possible, but with no maps and only relying on what you have heard and...
The Black Nile: One Man's Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World's Longest River
AuthorDan Morrison
ISBN0670021989
A spectacular modern-day adventure along the Nile River from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea

With news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a childhood friend who'd never been off American soil and set out from Uganda,...
To Timbuktu: A Journey Down the Niger
AuthorMark Jenkins
ISBN0688115853
Twenty years ago, when the author and his best friend, Mike Moe, were eighteen years old, they lit out from Wyoming to explore the world. They washed up in Africa and without forethought or planning set off for the most remote place on earth they could imagine: Timbuktu. Stopped by disease and the desert,...
Shadows in the Sun: Travels to Landscapes of Spirit and Desire
AuthorWade Davis
ISBN0767904028
" One of the intense pleasures of travel is the opportunity to live among people who have not forgotten the old ways, who still feel their past in the wind, touch it in stones polished by rain, recognize its taste in the bitter leaves of plants."
In this riveting collection of stories and essays, gifted...
Lost in Mongolia: Rafting the World's Last Unchallenged River
AuthorColin Angus
ISBN0767912802
From the Yenisey’s headwaters in the wild heart of central Asia to its mouth on the Arctic Ocean, Colin Angus and his fellow adventurers travel 5,500 kilometres of one of the world’s most dangerous rivers through remotest Mongolia and Siberia, and live to tell about it.

Exploration is...
In Search of King Solomon's Mines
AuthorTahir Shah
ISBN1559707240
King Solomon, the Bible's wisest king, also possessed extraordinary wealth. He built a temple at Jerusalem that was said to be more fabulous than any other landmark in the ancient world, heavily adorned with gold from Ophir. The precise location of this legendary land has been one of history's great...
Across China
AuthorPeter Jenkins
ISBN0449214567
It's truly a rare thing for an American during that time period to have been able to traverse the width and breadth of China--and especially handy to have had an interpreter with him the whole time. I appreciate the insight into far-flung regions of China, and am frankly in awe and envious of the author's...
The Bird Man and the Lap Dancer: Close Encounters with Strangers
AuthorEric Hansen
ISBN0679771824
Eric Hansen survives a cyclone on a boat off the Australian coast, cradles a dying man in Calcutta, and drinks mind-altering kava in Vanuatu. He helps a widower search for his wife's wedding ring amid plane-crash wreckage in Borneo and accompanies topless dancers on a bird-watching expedition in California....
The Heart of the Antarctic: The Farthest South Expedition 1907-1909
AuthorErnest Shackleton
ISBN0451200462
What induced me to start reading E. Shackleton’s dramatic diary on his first Antarctic journey as a leader of an expedition was William’s Grill “Shackleton’s Journey” illustrated and narrated by himself. Despite being a children-purposed colorful table book, it appeared a page-turner...
Crazy River: Exploration and Folly in East Africa
AuthorRichard Grant
ISBN1439154147
NO ONE TRAVELS QUITE LIKE RICHARD GRANT and, really, no one should. In his last book, the adventure classic God's Middle Finger, he narrowly escaped death in Mexico's lawless Sierra Madre. Now, Grant has plunged with his trademark recklessness, wit, and curiosity into East Africa. Setting out to make...
Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
AuthorWilliam Langewiesche
ISBN0679750061
It is as vast as the United States and so arid that most bacteria cannot survive there. Its loneliness is so extreme it is said thatmigratory birds will land beside travelers, just for the company. William Langewiesche came to the Sahara to see it as its inhabitants do, riding its public transport, braving...
Hold the Enlightenment
AuthorTim Cahill
ISBN0375713298
In his latest collection of death-defying exploits and far-flung travels, Outside Magazine editor Tim Cahill visits the side of an active volcano in Ecuador, the Saharan salt mines and the largest toxic waste dump in the Western Hemisphere. He also ventures to find a Caspian tiger in Turkey and giant...
Wild Coast: Travels on South America's Untamed Edge
AuthorJohn Gimlette
ISBN0307272532
Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana are among the least-known places in South America: nine hundred miles of muddy coastline giving way to a forest so dense that even today there are virtually no roads through it; a string of rickety coastal towns situated between the mouths of the Orinoco and Amazon...
North of South: An African Journey
AuthorShiva Naipaul
ISBN0140188266
In the 1970s Shiva Naipaul travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia for several months. Through his experiences, the places he visited and his various encounters, he aimed to discover what 'liberation', 'revolution' and 'socialism' meant to the ordinary people. His journey of discovery...
Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff
AuthorRosemary Mahoney
Rosemary Mahoney was determined to take a solo trip down the Egyptian Nile in a small boat, even though civil unrest and vexing local traditions conspired to create obstacles every step of the way. Starting off in the south, she gained the unlikely sympathy and respect of a Muslim sailor, who provided...
The Tree Where Man Was Born
AuthorPeter Matthiessen
ISBN0140239340
I purchased this book in anticipation of a journey to Africa. This chronicle is nonfiction, but it reads with the depth and intensity of poetry. Even though this book was written about the author’s experience and impressions of Africa on a series of trips in the 1960’s his insights remain timeless....
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