8 Men and a Duck
An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island
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 surg…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-7432-4309-4
- EAN: 9780743243094
- Produktnummer: 19443007
- Verlag: Simon & Schuster N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
- Masse: H21.4 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.8 cm 256 g
- Abbildungen: s/w. Abb.
- Gewicht: 256
Über den Autor
Nick Thorpe is an award-winning writer and journalist. A contributor to The Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, Scotsman, and BBC Radio 4, among others, he has covered stories ranging from Russian presidential elections to the coca wars of Bolivia, for which he was shortlisted for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism.
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