600 Miles To Timbuktu Summary

This summary is on 600 Miles to Timbuktu by Kira Salak. The format is travel memoir. Its main idea is about Salak going on a 600 mile trip up the African Niger River in 2005. She went on this journey to complete Mungo Parks journey because it is very dangerous so he died during this expedition. She traveled by a kayak by herself. During the expedition there was a very bad storm and she tore her muscle in her arm because the storm was capricious. When she was on the expedition she said she saw “Fish pluck at insects on the water surface. And birds -thousands of them- flying in unbroken, undulating clouds that dip and shoot across the river. These flocks are expertly formed, not a single bird out of place, all flying with careful yet carefree