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Tristan Jones

Biographies & Memoirs

Adlard Coles

The author depicts his sea voyages and his experiences as a sailor in the British Navy during World War II and the Korean War

HEART OF OAK : A British Sailor tells of his Service during World War II.

History

Europe

St.Martin's Press

Set in the Mediterranean, West Indies, &amp; waterways of Western Europe, Jones experiences the ultimate in high-sea adventure. Selected by the Dolphin and Nautical Book Clubs. Jones is a masterful storyteller.

Saga of a Wayward Sailor

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Avon/Books

During his six-year voyage, sailing a small craft on the lowest body of water in the world, the Dead Sea in Israel and the highest, Lake Titicaca in the Andes, Tristan Jones travelled a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world. This book tells of his adventures.

The Incredible Voyage: A Personal Odyssey

Travel

Triad

A star to steer her by

1983 the author had to have his leg amputated.  To prove that physical disability need not preclude a life of adventure, he embarked upon a 14,000 mile voyage with a crew of two.

A Star to Steer Her by

Sports & Outdoors

TRIAD BOOKS

Continues the author's account of the round-the-world voyage begun in A STAR TO STEER HER BY.  Describes a 2,307 mile journey across Europe, from the North Sea to the Black Sea, in an ocean-going trimaram.

The Improbable Voyage

GRAFTON

"The Improbable Voyage" is the astonishing account of master sailor and storyteller Tristan Jones' 2,307-mile voyage across Europe in an oceangoing trimaran, Outward Leg. Continuing his round-the-world journey, Tristan traveled from the North Sea to the Black Sea via the rivers Rhine and Danube. Tristan welcomed each difficulty-including a Bulgarian gunboat-as a challenge to be met and overcome. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, the indomitable Tristan made his way through eight countries and emerged triumphant, if battered, bruised and penniless, at the Black Sea. This voyage provides a memorable addition to the travel accounts of Central Europe. Tristan gives us a vivid glimpse of the quality of life along Europe's oldest water routes and behind the Iron Curtain. Flying the Red Ensign, the Stars and Stripes, and the Red Dragon of Wales, and playing bagpipe music at full volume, Tristan announced his passage in every town, city, and country. He became legendary along the Danube.

The improbable voyage of the yacht Outward Leg into, through, and out of the heart of Europe

Quill

During his six-year voyage, sailing a small craft on the lowest body of water in the world, the Dead Sea in Israel and the highest, Lake Titicaca in the Andes, Tristan Jones travelled a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world. This book tells of his adventures.

Incredible Voyage: A Personal Odyssey

Futura Publications

ICE!

Water Sports

Futura

After seven years ashore and having had his left leg amputated, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea, hoping to inspire other handicapped people. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out from San Diego in a 36-foot trimaran, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail. This is story of Tristan's preparation for this major seagoing event and the chronicle of half of it. (continued in Improbable Voyage"). Tristan sailed down the west coast of Central America through the Panama Canal to Colombia, where he had to fight for survival among hostile natives, drug dealers and uncoooperative port officers. He went on to Venezuela, Aruba and the Dominican Republic during its 1984 revolution. Finally he reached New York and crossed the Atlantic to return to St Katherine's Dock in London where he began his seagoing life, thirty years before."

Outward Leg

Adlard Coles Nautical

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