8 Men and a Duck
8 Men and a Duck : An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island Nick Thorpe,
Publisher: Free Press
ISBN: 0743243099
DDC: 910
Edition: Paperback; 2003-06-02
Summary:
Even with the wind on our side and all eight of us pulling, we had
never yet managed to change the complex sails....Now we had to pull
against the full force of the wind, in a storm, in the middle of the
night....So begins Nick Thorpe's unlikely journey to sail 2,500 miles
from northern Chile to Easter Island on the Viracocha -- a boat made
of reeds. Captain Phil Buck's desire to test the waters in this
pre-Incan boat was twofold: to reopen the controversial migration
theories of Thor Heyerdahl, who sailed his boat the Kon-Tiki from
Peru to Polynesia in 1947, and to have one heck of a time in the
process. With a crew that includes a tree surgeon, a jewelry
salesman, and two ducks, Thorpe embarks on an unnerving Pacific
voyage that is by turns fierce and farce: from the bungled phone call
that triggered a naval rescue alert to the constant race against the
inexorable sinking of the soggy hull. A story of high tides and even
higher stakes, 8 Men and a Duck is a tale of friendship, fate, and
the unlikely distances people will travel for true adventure.
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