Eight Men And A Duck: An Improbable Voyage By Reed Boat To Easter Island

Eight Men And A Duck: An Improbable Voyage By Reed Boat To Easter Island by Nick Thorpe


ISBN
9780316858014
Published
Released
13 / 06 / 2002
Binding
Paperback
Pages
288
Dimensions
154 x 234 x 24mm

On a fateful South American bus trip, journalist Nick Thorpe overheard an improbable plan: to sail 2,500 miles to Easter Island on a boat made of reeds.

Inspired by this modern-day Kon-Tiki, Nick blagged his way on board only to find himself with nagging questions. Why did the crew include a tree surgeon, a jewellery salesman and a duck? What had happened to the navigator? Did anybody actually know how to sail? And, most importantly, where was the life raft?

'Eight Men And A Duck' charts this most eccentric of Pacific voyages as it lurched between high drama and high farce: the slow-motion launch that took five days to complete; the bungled phone call that triggered a naval rescue alert; and the constant race against the inexorable sinking of the soggy hull.
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