Bibliograph

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

Type

Label

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

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Little Ship of Fools

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

855968983

Sub title

Sixteen Rowers, One Improbable Boat, Seven Tumultuous Weeks on the Atlantic

Summary

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

Table Of Contents

Other Books by Charles Wilkins; Title Page; Copyright; Epigraph; Route Map; Prologue; One; Two; Three; Four; Five; Six; Seven; Eight; Nine; Ten; Eleven; Twelve; Thirteen; Fourteen; Fifteen; Sixteen; Seventeen; Eighteen; Nineteen; Epilogue; Acknowledgments; Photo Section

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