Relates the tale of the author's journey of more than six hundred dangerous miles on the Niger River from Mali's Old Segou to Timbuktu, enduring tropical storms and the heat of the Sahara to fulfill her goal of buying the freedom of two Bella slave girls.
- ISBN10 0792274571
- ISBN13 9780792274575
- Publish Date 1 November 2004
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 December 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint National Geographic Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English