Hardcover: 304
pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x 7.46 x 5.38 Publisher: Pantheon Books;
(January 6, 2004) ISBN: 0375422579 In the late
1990s John Pollack was working as a Washington speechwriter when, frustrated by
the cynicism and hypocrisy on Capitol Hill, he quit his job to pursue a boyhood
dream: to build a boat made entirely of wine corks and take it on an epic
journey.