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.
- ISBN10 0316858013
- ISBN13 9780316858014
- Publish Date 20 February 2006
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 24 March 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Little, Brown & Company
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 288
- Language English