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.
When he joined the expedition, Wilkins had never swung an oar in earnest. In a tale both harrowing and hilarious, Wilkins takes the reader along for seven weeks of rationed food, festering sores, breathtaking sunrises, sleep deprivation, and mile-high waves alongside a devoted crew of misadventurers.
Little Ship of Fools is a fascinating and funny story of courage, adventure and human spirit
Over de auteur
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 non-fiction 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.
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