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Loading... Four Corners: A Journey into the Heart of Papua New Guineaby Kira Salak
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. A young American woman not really sure about what she is travelling for, only that she needs to do it. There are things she has left behind: her course, her boyfriend, and things she hasn't or can't: her experiences in Mozambique and her past. Travelling through an island that was split in two when the Indonesian's invaded, Kira visits a refugee camp which opens her eyes to what the rest of the world seems not to have noticed. Her foreign points of contact are the various missionaries, people working for companies and a few tourists. She travels around, by canoe, on foot and in minibuses, always the outsider, the Wait Meri. It is sad to see how the New Guineans are being "modernised" with no regard to their past or whether they even want to be. The missionary collecting up the traditional tools so he can replace them with metal ones just horrified me. (  )1   soffitta1 | Feb 27, 2009 |  1971-,/Biography & Autobiography/Biography/Autobiography/Description and travel/General/Papua New Guinea/Salak, Kira,/Travel/Travel - General/Travelers' writings/Women/Journeys/Salak, Kira/Memoir  Budz888 | May 31, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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At the age of 24, Kira Salak undertook a three-month solo journey across Papua, New Guinea. Four Corners, her account of that trip, is an extraordinary travel memoir. Amid the breathtaking landscapes and wildlife, Salak traversed this island, known as the last frontier of adventure travel, by dugout canoe and on foot. Along the way, Salak stayed in a village where people still practiced cannibalism 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. Four Corners is also an interior journey as Salak explores her dysfunctional family past, and the demons that drive her to experience situations that most of us can barely imagine.
Reading more like a thriller than a travel book, Four Corners is compulsive armchair travel at its very best.
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