EIGHT MEN AND A DUCK Nick Thorpe - An Improbable Voyage by Reed Boat to Easter Island (Pacific Islands South America Chile Poynesia)

EIGHT MEN AND A DUCK: Nick Thorpe joints a bizarre venture to travel from Chile to Easter Island on a reed boat.

USED TRAVEL BOOK IN VERY GOOD CONDITION: very clean and rarely read; pages are clean and tanning with age. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

PUBLISHER'S BLURB: Nick Thorpe was innocently travelling around South America with his girlfriend, Ali, when he came across an American adventurer planning to sail from Chile to Easter Island on a Bolivian boat made of reeds. Inspired by the great Thor Heyerdahl, Buck had recruited seven men to join him on this experiment to discover whether it might have been possible that Polynesia was first settled from South America rather than Asia. But when one of them dropped out a place in the crew became available for Nick. What followed was a somewhat bizarre expedition undertaken by a rather makeshift vessel, a couple of ducks (one of which could have only guessed at its fate) and a group of men, who, when all was said and done, weren't quite sure how to sail a boat. “Eight Men and a Duck” is a tale of storms, amateur seamen and the occasional shark.

Book Details

Code: SKU2156

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Paperback

Pages: 308

Published: 2003 by Abacus, UK

ISBN: 0349114544

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