Contents Prologue: Can I Borrow Your Safety Harness? Chapter One The Bus of Destiny Chapter Two The Missing Voyage Chapter Three A Bag of Flies Chapter Four The Longest Launch Chapter Five Green Luminous Froth Chapter Six In Deep Water Chapter Seven The Trouble with Fish Chapter Eight Webbed Feet and Shark Fins Chapter Nine The Perils of Steel and Dreams Chapter Ten A Proper Storm Chapter Eleven Still Ocean Chapter Twelve Last Tango Before Landfall Chapter Thirteen Things to Do with a Used Reed Boat Epilogue: Thor Revisited Appendix A: The Easter Island Enigma Appendix B: How to Build a Reed Boat, by Phil Buck Appendix C: Diagrams of the Viracocha Acknowledgments.