8 men and a duck
Subtitle: an improbable voyage by reed boat to Easter Island
By: Nick Thorpe
Publisher: The Free Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780743219280
Subjects: Voyages and travels; Travel; Viracocha (Boat); Tule boats
Other titles: Eight men and a duck
Description: A journalist traces his 2,500-mile journey from South America to Easter Island with an eight-man crew on board an eighteen-meter pre-Incan reed boat as part of an adventure to reopen controversial migration theories by Thor Heyerdahl.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Can I borrow your safety harness?; title: The bus of destiny; title: The missing voyage; title: A bag of flies; title: The longest launch; title: Green luminous froth; title: In deep water; title: The trouble with fish; title: Webbed feet and shark fins; title: The perils of steel and dreams; title: A proper storm; title: Still ocean; title: Last tango before landfall; title: Things to do with a used reed boat; title: Epilogue: Thor revisited; title: Appendix A. The Easter Island enigma; title: Appendix B. How to build a reed boat / by Phil Buck; title: Appendix C. Diagrams of the Viracocha.