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Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Ocean travel
ISBN : OCLC:1033582219
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497603639
From the acclaimed teller of such classic yarns as A STEADY TRADE, THE INCREDIBLE VOYAGE, and HEART OF OAK, ENCOUNTERS OF A WAYWARD SAILOR is wonderful collection of true stories from one of the great storytellers of the sea. Drawing on experiences from a lifetime at sea, Tristan Jones uses his acute powers of observation and his gift with for telling tales to transport us aboard boats struggling through savage gales, sweltering through parched calms, and sliding down the trade winds through beautiful, phosphorescent seas. With a special poignancy and his unique, wry sense of humor, Jones brings back to life people--like sailing adventurer Bill Tilman, long-distance voyager Bernard Moitessier, and pioneering woman sailor Clare Francis--as well as the places and boats lost to time. He recalls his favorite ports, his treasured cities, and his most memorable voyages.
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0924486791
This is the chronicle of Tristan Jones' adventures around the North Atlantic from 1961 to 1968 aboard his beloved Cresswell, a wooden lifeboat converted to cruising sailboat.
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493076307
In a salty, slashing style, Tristan Jones unfolds his extraordinary saga—a six-year voyage during which he covered a distance equal to twice the circumference of the world—revealing both a rich sense of history and an insuppressible Welsh wit. With a singleness of purpose as ferocious as any hazard he encountered, Tristan Jones would not give up—even after dodging snipers on the Red Sea, capsizing off the Cape of Good Hope, starving in the Amazon, struggling for 3,000 miles against the mightiest sea current in the world, and hauling his boat over the rugged Andes three miles above sea level to find at last the legendary Island of the Sun. And beyond lay the most awesome challenge of all: the tortuous trek through 6,000 miles of uncharted rivers to find his way back to the ocean.
Author : Anthony Dalton
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0071402519
"His real name was Arthur Jones. He was born in Liverpool in 1929, the illegitimate son of a working-class Lancashire girl, and he grew up in orphanages with little education. Too young to see action in the World War II naval battles he would later write about so movingly, he joined the Royal Navy in 1946 and served fourteen unremarkable years." "Arthur Jones then bought an old sailboat and tried his hand at smuggling whiskey cross-Channel. In his early thirties he sailed into a Mediterranean limbo, scraping a living from charters by day and haunting the bars of Ibiza by night. When he was drunk, which was often, he could be loud and obnoxious and had the scars to prove it. He had no family, no attachments, no accomplishments." "Then came a midlife sea change. Arthur Jones looked into his future, imagined greatness, and began to claw his way to it. Having taught himself to sail, he taught himself to write. He was a natural at both. As Tristan Jones, in his midforties, he sailed out of Brazil's Mato Grosso and into a Greenwich Village apartment to write six books in three years and reinvent his past." "The Tristan Jones of his books was born in a storm at sea in 1924 on his father's tramp steamer; was torpedoed three times in epic World War II engagements; completed the first circumnavigation of Iceland; traveled farther north and farther up the Amazon River than any sailor before him; and sailed more than 400,000 miles, 180,000 of them solo. Readers loved his books and crowded his lectures and signings. He had a bard's voice and a street performer's delivery. He had more reknown than he could have dreamed." "Having invented a life, Tristan Jones tried to live it. After the amputation of his left leg in 1982 he sailed more than halfway around the world. He lost his right leg in 1991 yet still returned briefly to sea. But as his body failed him, so too did his spirits. It was as if the life from which he'd bodily lifted himself were pulling him down again. He died a bitter man."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Sheridan House Incorporated
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0924486171
Sequel to: Saga of a wayward sailor. Continues the adventures and encounters of Tristan Jones aboard his converted lifeboat ketch.
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574090615
After seven years ashore and after having his left leg amputated, Tristan Jones decided to return to the sea. In October 1983, Jones and his only crew member, Wally Rediske, set out in Outward Leg, a 36-ft trimaran from San Diego, intending to circumnavigate the world from west to east by sail.
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-08-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0924486899
When the Royal Navy discharged Tristan Jones and told him he was physically unfit for seafaring, he got hold of a small craft, converted it to a cruising ketch, and kicked away from shore. Determined to sail farther north than anyone else, he set out from Iceland accompanied only by his dog, Nelson. For two winters he endured constant danger in bleak polar regions. He survived violent snowstorms, a ravenous polar bear, and getting stranded on an ice pack in the Arctic Ocean, all while grappling with loneliness, despair, and dwindling supplies. Then the ice shifted, crushing his boat like a matchbox, and he came face-to-face with cold oblivion...
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0924486309
Emerging from the South American wilderness after adventures related in The Incredible Voyage, Tristan Jones finally makes it home to Britain to find his vessel, the tiny, nearly indestructible Sea Dart, impounded by customs officials because he cannot pay the import tax. In his quest for the means to liberate his boat, he takes any work he can get: stoking the boilers at Harrod's, regaling TV talk show viewers with wild stories, and in New York skippering one-day around the lighthouse cruises
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 1574090054
More adventures and more encounters a la Tristan Jones, including the delivery of a yacht from Algiers to Marseilles with some unexpected machine-gun fire thrown in, and a stormy night mercy mission transporting a battered English lady and Senora Puig who gives birth at dawn.
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493076055
Ancient Chinese legends tell of heroic attempts to navigate the waterways of the Kra peninsula which divides the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand. Yet despite efforts over the last century by expeditions from several Western navies, there was no record of a successful crossing—none, that is, until renowned sailor Tristan Jones took on the challenge. To Venture Further is the inspiring story of this memorable exploit by one of the finest sailing adventure writers of our time. Accompanied by his German mate, Thomas, and three disabled Thai youths, Jones makes the short but exceedingly difficult passage across the Kra in a small seagoing fishing boat. Facing floating debris, homemade dams, mechanical failure, and precariously low funds, Jones—whose left leg was amputated several years before—remains determined to win out against all obstacles, no matter how insurmountable they seem. With characteristically acerbic wit, Jones offers shrewd commentary on the Westernization of modern Thailand, bemoaning the destruction of a once-idyllic land. And whether confronting a band of raucous teenage monks, outwitting pirates in the Gulf of Thailand, or cruising a dry riverbed by hitching his boat onto an elephant, he continues to exhibit the awesome stubbornness and implacable courage of a man willing to sacrifice all comforts for the unknown and seemingly impossible.
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497603516
“A pleasure . . . a brilliant collection of yarns about [a British mariner’s] life, his sailing adventures, and his thoughts about man and the sea.” —Lloyd's List In Yarns, legendary sailor and adventurer Tristan Jones tells stories of his remarkable life at sea. Along with tales of the beautiful cruises he has made around the world and the memorable people he has met along the way, Jones has advice for his readers on everything from captaining a boat to engaging with locals in remote locations. He proposes his own theory for the mystery of the ghost ship Mary Celeste. Other yarns include a story of a troubled steamship, his accounts of an unlikely salvage operation in Ibiza, a strange rendezvous on the coast of Africa, and his chance encounter with a renowned American sailor. Jones even shares what prompted him to begin writing in the first place—a turn of fortune that sailing and reading fans have lauded him for ever since. “The characters and capers, including a Sherlock Holmes-style mystery, pour deliciously from the pen of this legendary adventurer.” —Cruising World
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1574090267
In a last-ditch stab at fortune and glory, middle-aged adventurer Bill Conan enters a 30,000-mile single-handed round-the-world race. This ultimate test of skill, strength, and endurance leads him across the treacherous Atlantic Ocean's vast expanse, where a sudden change in wind throws him off balance and sends him overboard. Alone in the still, open sea, he struggles to keep from drowning, knowing it is a fight that he will eventually lose... But Conan has stumbled into the migratory path of a bottle-nosed dolphin named Aka and his tribe. In an exhilarating encounter, he senses Conan's plight, communicates with him, and works to keep him afloat and alive. A stirring adventure tale, Aka depicts the ancient history of dolphins, their extraordinary traits and abilities, and their eternal friendship with humans.
Author : Tristan Jones
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574090623
The Improbable Voyage is the astonishing account of TRistan Jones' 2,307 mile voyage across Europe in 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 as a challenge to be met and overcome. Battling ice and cold, life-threatening rapids and narrow defiles, German bureaucrats and Romanian frontier police, Tristan made his way through eight countries and emerged triumphant, if battered, bruised and penniless, at the Black Sea. Tristan gives us a vivid glimpse of the quality of life along Europe's oldest water routes and behind the Iron Curtain.
Author : Laurel Wagers
Publisher : Sheridan House, Inc.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1574090704
Having raced tides and dared river rapids, crossed a desert and a mountain range, housed a children's television show, and been honored in the ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, the small sailboat Sea Dart became famous for the incredible voyage of writer/sailor Tristan Jones.