Kira Salak kayaking the Niger River
Photograph by Rémi Bénali

Author of the new adventure novel The White Mary, Kira Salak has traveled solo to almost every continent, becoming the first person to kayak solo 600 miles down West Africa’s Niger River to Timbuktu in Mali. A contributing editor to National Geographic Adventure, her gripping debut novel tells the story of a woman journalist searching the jungles of New Guinea for the truth about a famed war correspondent thought to have committed suicide. Salak, an NG explorer, will discuss her novel and her own tales of adventure.

Copies of The White Mary will be available for sale and signing after the presentation.

Read an interview with Kira Salak in which she discusses her new novel.

Grosvenor Auditorium National Geographic Society 1600 M Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20036 +1 202 857 7700

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