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Longlisted for the Charles Taylor PrizeThe dramatic and hilarious story of risk and survival as well as the importance of our connections to the planet on a human-powered journey across the oceanIt was to be an expedition like no othera run across the Atlantic from Morocco to Barbados aboard an experimental rowboat There would be no support vessel no stored water no sails or motor The boats crew of sixteen included several veterans of US college rowing a number of triathletes a woman who had rowed both the Atlantic and Indian Oceans and a scrawny sexagenarian looking for a last great challengeour chronicler Charles WilkinsWhen he joined the expedition Wilkins had never swung an oar in earnest Accompanied by a devoted crew of misadventurers Wilkins takes the reader along for seven weeks of rationed food extreme sleep deprivation and life-threatening seasas well as sharks whales and an ever-disintegrating boat Little Ship of Fools is a rich and fascinating story of courage community the importance of risk in our lives and the resilience and depth of the human spirit.