Voyage of the Manteno : The Education of a Modern-Day Expeditioner

English

ISBN: 0312324324

EAN: 9780312324322

Category: Travel / Australia & Oceania/Travel / Essays & Travelogues/

Publisher: St. Martins Press

Release Date: 11/01/2006

Synopsis: In 1995, John Haslett went to a tiny fishing village in Ecuador to begin building a thirty-thousand-pound raft made entirely#xA0;of balsa wood, bamboo, and manila rope.#xA0;Inspired by Thor Heyerdahls famed Kon-Tiki voyage, Haslett intended to sail five thousand nautical miles across the open sea to Hawaii. What transpired, however, was anything but a recreation of Heyerdahls famous voyage. Over the next five years, Haslett and his crews journeyed through a surreal odyssey of madness, mutiny, obsession, and survival. They lived aboard primitive rafts for months at a time, were marooned in alien worlds, saw one vessel sunk, another abandoned, and another wrecked. Ultimately, Haslett and his colleagues would emerge with new discoveries about a lost culture. Voyage of the Mantenois an ancient sea tale, lived by modern men. It is a compelling adventure brought to life by a cast of characters who vary from the ordinary, to the heroic, to an Ahab-like crewman who teetered on the brink of insanity. A tale of hope, survival, and discovery, Voyage of the Mantenois the true story of two harrowing expeditions in the late 1990s.

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Voyage of the Manteno : The Education of a Modern-Day Expeditioner

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.0 inches

Width: 6.25 inches

Length: 9.5 inches

Weight: 22.22 oz

Pages: 336