Little Ship of Fools - Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on

Informationen zum Autor Charles Wilkins wrestled Don Starkell's mountainous diary into the classic work of adventure travel Paddle to the Amazon, praised by the New York Times Book Review as "a model expeditionary journal." He is the winner of three National Magazine Awards and has been a finalist for the Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, among other awards. His acclaimed nonfiction includes The Circus at the Edge of the Earth and Walk to New York, and he is the co-author, with Gordie Howe, of the bestseller After the Applause. He divides his time between Thunder Bay and Muskoka, ON. Klappentext The dramatic and hilarious story of sores and survival on a human-powered journey across the ocean. It was to be an expedition like no other-a run across the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados aboard an experimental rowboat. There would be no support vessel, no stored water, no sails, no motor. The boat's crew of sixteen included several veterans of U.S. college rowing, a number of triathletes, a woman who had rowed both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, and a scrawny, bespectacled sexagenarian -- our chronicler, Charles Wilkins.

Product details

• Authors: Charles Wilkins
• Publisher: Oneworld
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2013
• EAN: 9781553658788
• ISBN: 978-1-55365-878-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Water sport, sailing; Travel > Travel guides; TRAVEL / Special Interest / Adventure, Boating, Travel & holiday guides, Boating: Sport and leisure, SPORTS & RECREATION / Water Sports / Boating