'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 a near- fatal 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.
