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Friday, March 12, 2004
 

Paging Kira Salak

Back in the day, Marc and I ran a magazine in Boston called Cruel World. An adventurous woman named Kira Salak, who'd already been to Malawi, alone, at age 20, wrote about the trip for our Travel Issue. This is how Kira looked just after we knew her, and how she looks on her semi-recent travel book, Four Corners: One Woman's Solo Journey Into the Heart of Papua New Guinea:



That's Kira on the right.

She's the first woman in history to cross Papua by herself. The book says she made it back, but God help me if I can find her e-mail address.

posted by Michael Scott Moore | 11:13 PM
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